The Essential Facts of Backgammon Game Plans – Part 2
As we have dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a game of skill and good luck. The goal is to move your chips carefully around the game board to your inner board and at the same time your opponent moves their checkers toward their home board in the opposing direction. With opposing player pieces heading in opposing directions there is bound to be conflict and the requirement for specific techniques at specific instances. Here are the last 2 Backgammon tactics to complete your game.
The Priming Game Plan
If the goal of the blocking strategy is to slow down the opponent to move her checkers, the Priming Game tactic is to completely barricade any movement of the opponent by assembling a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s checkers will either get hit, or result a bad position if he/she at all attempts to leave the wall. The trap of the prime can be setup anyplace between point 2 and point 11 in your board. After you’ve successfully built the prime to prevent the movement of your opponent, the opponent doesn’t even get a chance to toss the dice, and you move your pieces and toss the dice again. You’ll win the game for sure.
The Back Game Strategy
The aims of the Back Game plan and the Blocking Game plan are very similar – to hinder your opponent’s positions in hope to improve your odds of succeeding, however the Back Game tactic uses alternate techniques to do that. The Back Game plan is generally utilized when you are far behind your competitor. To compete in Backgammon with this tactic, you need to hold two or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This tactic is more challenging than others to play in Backgammon because it requires careful movement of your checkers and how the pieces are moved is partly the result of the dice toss.