The Essential Facts of Backgammon Tactics – Part 2
As we dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a game of skill and good luck. The goal is to shift your pieces carefully around the game board to your inner board and at the same time your opposing player shifts their chips toward their home board in the opposing direction. With competing player chips moving in opposite directions there is going to be conflict and the need for particular tactics at particular instances. Here are the 2 final Backgammon techniques to finish off your game.
The Priming Game Tactic
If the aim of the blocking tactic is to hamper the opponents ability to shift her chips, the Priming Game strategy is to absolutely block any activity of the opposing player by creating a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s chips will either get hit, or result a bad position if he at all attempts to leave the wall. The trap of the prime can be established anyplace between point two and point eleven in your board. After you’ve successfully constructed the prime to prevent the movement of your opponent, your opponent doesn’t even get a chance to toss the dice, and you shift your checkers and roll the dice yet again. You’ll be a winner for sure.
The Back Game Strategy
The aims of the Back Game strategy and the Blocking Game strategy are similar – to hinder your opponent’s positions with hope to better your odds of winning, but the Back Game strategy relies on different tactics to do that. The Back Game strategy is frequently utilized when you’re far behind your competitor. To participate in Backgammon with this technique, you need 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 employ in Backgammon seeing as it requires careful movement of your checkers and how the pieces are relocated is partially the result of the dice toss.