The Basics of Backgammon Game Plans – Part Two
As we have dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a game of ability and luck. The goal is to move your checkers carefully around the board to your home board and at the same time your opposition shifts their pieces toward their home board in the opposing direction. With opposing player chips moving in opposite directions there is bound to be conflict and the need for specific techniques at specific times. Here are the two final Backgammon techniques to complete your game.
The Priming Game Strategy
If the aim of the blocking plan is to hamper the opponents ability to move his chips, the Priming Game tactic is to completely block any movement of the opposing player by assembling a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s checkers will either get bumped, or end up in a battered position if she ever tries to escape the wall. The ambush of the prime can be setup anyplace between point two and point eleven in your game board. As soon as you’ve successfully constructed the prime to block the activity of the opponent, the competitor does not even get to toss the dice, and you shift your chips and toss the dice yet again. You’ll win the game for sure.
The Back Game Tactic
The goals of the Back Game strategy and the Blocking Game strategy are similar – to hinder your competitor’s positions with hope to better your odds of succeeding, however the Back Game plan utilizes seperate techniques to do that. The Back Game strategy is often employed when you are far behind your competitor. To compete in Backgammon with this tactic, 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 challenging than others to use in Backgammon because it needs careful movement of your checkers and how the pieces are relocated is partially the outcome of the dice toss.