The Essential Basics of Backgammon Tactics – Part 2
As we have dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a casino game of ability and good luck. The aim is to shift your chips carefully around the board to your home board and at the same time your opposition shifts their checkers toward their home board in the opposite direction. With competing player chips heading in opposing directions there is going to be conflict and the need for specific strategies at specific times. Here are the last 2 Backgammon strategies to round out your game.
The Priming Game Plan
If the purpose of the blocking tactic is to hamper the opponents ability to move her chips, the Priming Game strategy is to completely block any activity of the opposing player by constructing a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s checkers will either get hit, or end up in a bad position if he/she at all tries to escape the wall. The ambush of the prime can be setup anyplace between point 2 and point eleven in your game board. Once you’ve successfully constructed the prime to block the activity of your opponent, your opponent doesn’t even get to toss the dice, and you move your chips and toss the dice yet again. You will win the game for sure.
The Back Game Technique
The aims of the Back Game tactic and the Blocking Game technique are similar – to harm your competitor’s positions hoping to boost your chances of winning, but the Back Game technique utilizes different tactics to achieve that. The Back Game plan is commonly utilized when you are far behind your competitor. To play Backgammon with this strategy, you have to control 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single checker) late in the game. This strategy is more difficult than others to play in Backgammon seeing as it requires careful movement of your chips and how the pieces are relocated is partly the outcome of the dice toss.