The Essential Facts of Backgammon Strategies – Part 2
Posted in Backgammon on 11/24/2015 11:21 am by Jillian
As we dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a casino game of talent and pure 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 checkers toward their home board in the opposite direction. With opposing player pieces shifting in opposing directions there is bound to be conflict and the need for specific tactics at particular times. Here are the last two Backgammon strategies to complete your game.
The Priming Game Strategy
If the purpose of the blocking strategy is to hamper the opponents ability to shift their checkers, the Priming Game tactic is to absolutely stop any movement of the opposing player by building a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s checkers will either get hit, or end up in a damaged position if he/she at all tries 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. Once you’ve successfully built the prime to stop the movement of your competitor, your competitor doesn’t even get a chance to toss the dice, and you shift your pieces and toss the dice yet again. You’ll be a winner for sure.
The Back Game Plan
The goals of the Back Game technique and the Blocking Game tactic are very similar – to hurt your competitor’s positions hoping to improve your chances of winning, however the Back Game strategy relies on different tactics to achieve that. The Back Game technique is often utilized when you’re far behind your opponent. To compete in Backgammon with this tactic, you have to hold 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 employ in Backgammon seeing as it needs careful movement of your checkers and how the chips are moved is partially the result of the dice toss.