The Essential Basics of Backgammon Strategies – Part Two
Posted in Backgammon on 11/07/2009 01:21 pm by Jillian
As we have dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a game of talent and luck. The aim is to shift your chips carefully around the game board to your home board while at the same time your opposition moves their chips toward their inside board in the opposing direction. With competing player checkers moving in opposing directions there is going to be conflict and the need for specific techniques at specific instances. Here are the 2 final Backgammon plans to finish off your game.
The Priming Game Strategy
If the goal of the blocking strategy is to slow down the opponent to move her checkers, the Priming Game strategy is to absolutely block any movement of the opposing player by assembling a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s checkers will either get hit, or result a damaged position if he ever tries to leave the wall. The trap of the prime can be established anyplace between point 2 and point eleven in your half of the board. After you’ve successfully constructed the prime to stop the movement of the competitor, the competitor doesn’t even get to roll the dice, that means you shift your pieces and toss the dice yet again. You’ll be a winner for sure.
The Back Game Tactic
The aims of the Back Game tactic and the Blocking Game tactic are very similar – to harm your competitor’s positions in hope to improve your chances of succeeding, however the Back Game strategy relies on different techniques to achieve that. The Back Game tactic is frequently utilized when you’re far behind your opponent. To participate in Backgammon with this plan, you need to control two or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single piece) late in the game. This technique is more difficult than others to use in Backgammon because it needs careful movement of your chips and how the pieces are moved is partly the outcome of the dice toss.