The Essential Basics of Backgammon Strategies – Part Two
As we have dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a game of talent and luck. The goal is to shift your checkers safely around the board to your home board and at the same time your opposing player shifts their checkers toward their inner board in the opposing direction. With competing player chips shifting in opposite directions there is bound to be conflict and the need for specific techniques at particular times. Here are the two final Backgammon techniques to complete your game.
The Priming Game Tactic
If the goal of the blocking strategy is to slow down the opponent to move their pieces, the Priming Game tactic is to completely stop any movement of the opposing player by building a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s pieces will either get hit, or result a battered position if he/she ever attempts to leave the wall. The trap of the prime can be setup anyplace between point 2 and point 11 in your half of the board. Once you have successfully assembled the prime to prevent the movement of your competitor, your competitor does not even get a chance to toss the dice, that means you shift your chips and roll the dice again. You will be a winner for sure.
The Back Game Technique
The objectives of the Back Game plan and the Blocking Game strategy are similar – to hurt your competitor’s positions in hope to better your odds of winning, however the Back Game tactic relies on alternate techniques to achieve that. The Back Game strategy is generally utilized when you’re far behind your competitor. To participate in Backgammon with this tactic, you need to control two or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This strategy is more complex than others to play in Backgammon because it requires careful movement of your pieces and how the pieces are relocated is partially the outcome of the dice toss.