The Basics of Backgammon Strategies – Part 2
As we have dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a casino game of skill and good luck. The aim is to shift your pieces carefully around the game board to your home board while at the same time your opposition shifts their chips toward their inner board in the opposing direction. With opposing player pieces shifting in opposing directions there is going to be conflict and the requirement for particular techniques at specific times. Here are the last 2 Backgammon techniques to round out your game.
The Priming Game Plan
If the purpose of the blocking strategy is to slow down the opponent to shift her checkers, the Priming Game plan is to completely block any movement of the opponent by assembling a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s pieces will either get hit, or end up in a battered position if he at all tries to leave the wall. The ambush of the prime can be built anywhere between point two and point eleven in your game board. As soon as you’ve successfully built the prime to stop the activity of the competitor, your competitor doesn’t even get to toss the dice, and you shift your checkers and roll the dice again. You will be a winner for sure.
The Back Game Strategy
The objectives of the Back Game technique and the Blocking Game tactic are similar – to hurt your competitor’s positions with hope to boost your odds of succeeding, but the Back Game tactic uses alternate tactics to achieve that. The Back Game tactic is frequently employed when you are far behind your opponent. To participate in Backgammon with this strategy, you have to control 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single piece) late in the game. This technique is more difficult than others to play in Backgammon because it needs careful movement of your pieces and how the pieces are moved is partly the result of the dice toss.