The Essential Basics of Backgammon Strategies – Part 2
Posted in Backgammon on 02/22/2016 08:21 am by Jillian
As we dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a game of ability and good luck. The aim is to shift your chips carefully around the board to your inside board while at the same time your opposition shifts their pieces toward their inside board in the opposing direction. With competing player chips moving in opposing directions there is going to be conflict and the requirement for specific tactics at particular times. Here are the last two Backgammon strategies to complete your game.
The Priming Game Tactic
If the aim of the blocking tactic is to hamper the opponents ability to move his checkers, the Priming Game tactic is to completely barricade any activity 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 she ever attempts to leave the wall. The ambush of the prime can be built anyplace between point 2 and point 11 in your half of the board. As soon as you have successfully constructed the prime to prevent the movement of your competitor, the opponent doesn’t even get to toss the dice, that means you shift your pieces and roll the dice yet again. You’ll be a winner for sure.
The Back Game Technique
The goals of the Back Game tactic and the Blocking Game technique are very similar – to hinder your competitor’s positions with hope to improve your chances of winning, but the Back Game technique uses seperate tactics to do that. The Back Game strategy is commonly employed when you are far behind your opponent. To play Backgammon with this technique, you have to control two or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This plan is more challenging than others to play in Backgammon because it needs careful movement of your chips and how the pieces are moved is partially the outcome of the dice roll.