The Essential Details of Backgammon Strategies – Part 2
As we have dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a game of skill and luck. The aim is to move your chips safely around the game board to your inside board while at the same time your opposing player moves their pieces toward their inner board in the opposite direction. With competing player checkers moving in opposing directions there is going to be conflict and the requirement for particular tactics at particular times. Here are the last 2 Backgammon strategies to round out your game.
The Priming Game Tactic
If the aim of the blocking tactic is to slow down the opponent to move his pieces, the Priming Game plan is to absolutely barricade any movement of the opposing player by constructing a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s checkers will either get bumped, or end up in a battered position if he ever tries to escape the wall. The ambush of the prime can be setup anywhere between point 2 and point eleven in your board. As soon as you’ve successfully constructed the prime to block the activity of the opponent, your opponent doesn’t even get a chance to roll the dice, that means you move your chips and toss the dice yet again. You’ll win the game for sure.
The Back Game Technique
The goals of the Back Game technique and the Blocking Game strategy are very similar – to hinder your opponent’s positions with hope to boost your chances of succeeding, however the Back Game technique utilizes seperate tactics to achieve that. The Back Game strategy is commonly utilized when you’re far behind your competitor. To play Backgammon with this tactic, you have to control two or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single checker) late in the game. This plan is more difficult than others to employ in Backgammon seeing as it needs careful movement of your pieces and how the pieces are relocated is partly the result of the dice toss.