The Essential Basics of Backgammon Strategies – Part Two
As we have dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a casino game of talent and pure luck. The goal is to shift your chips safely around the game board to your home board and at the same time your opponent moves their checkers toward their inside board in the opposite direction. With opposing player checkers moving in opposite directions there is going to be conflict and the need for particular techniques at specific instances. Here are the 2 final Backgammon plans to finish off your game.
The Priming Game Tactic
If the purpose of the blocking tactic is to slow down the opponent to move her chips, the Priming Game strategy is to absolutely block any movement of the opposing player by assembling a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s pieces will either get hit, or end up in a bad position if she at all tries to escape the wall. The ambush of the prime can be built anywhere between point two and point eleven in your board. Once you’ve successfully built the prime to block the movement of your competitor, the competitor does not even get to roll the dice, and you shift your pieces and roll the dice yet again. You’ll win the game for sure.
The Back Game Tactic
The aims of the Back Game plan and the Blocking Game technique are very similar – to hurt your opponent’s positions in hope to boost your chances of winning, however the Back Game technique relies on different tactics to achieve that. The Back Game plan is commonly used when you’re far behind your competitor. To compete in Backgammon with this tactic, you need to control 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This plan is more complex than others to use in Backgammon because it needs careful movement of your pieces and how the chips are relocated is partly the outcome of the dice roll.