The Essential Details of Backgammon Strategies – Part Two
As we have dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a casino game of ability and luck. The aim is to shift your pieces carefully around the board to your inside board while at the same time your opposition shifts their checkers toward their home board in the opposing direction. With competing player pieces heading in opposing directions there is bound to be conflict and the need for particular strategies at particular times. Here are the two final Backgammon tactics to round out your game.
The Priming Game Plan
If the purpose of the blocking strategy is to slow down the opponent to move her checkers, the Priming Game tactic is to absolutely stop any activity of the opposing player by assembling a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s pieces will either get bumped, or result a battered position if he/she at all attempts to escape the wall. The ambush of the prime can be established anywhere between point 2 and point eleven in your half of the board. After you’ve successfully constructed the prime to stop the activity of your competitor, your opponent doesn’t even get to roll the dice, and you move your pieces and toss the dice again. You will win the game for sure.
The Back Game Plan
The aims of the Back Game plan and the Blocking Game tactic are very similar – to hinder your opponent’s positions with hope to better your chances of winning, however the Back Game technique utilizes alternate techniques to do that. The Back Game tactic is often utilized when you are far behind your opponent. To compete in Backgammon with this technique, you have to control two or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single checker) late in the game. This tactic is more complex than others to play in Backgammon seeing as it needs careful movement of your checkers and how the chips are moved is partially the outcome of the dice toss.
