The Essential Details of Backgammon Tactics – Part Two
Posted in Backgammon on 12/13/2018 12:25 pm by Jillian
As we have dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a game of talent and pure luck. The aim is to shift your chips carefully around the board to your inner board and at the same time your opposing player shifts their chips toward their inner board in the opposing direction. With opposing player chips heading in opposite directions there is bound to be conflict and the requirement for specific tactics at specific times. Here are the last 2 Backgammon strategies to finish off your game.
The Priming Game Strategy
If the goal of the blocking tactic is to slow down the opponent to move her pieces, the Priming Game plan is to completely block any movement of the opposing player by constructing a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s checkers will either get bumped, or result a bad position if he/she at all attempts to escape the wall. The trap of the prime can be built anyplace between point 2 and point 11 in your board. After you’ve successfully built the prime to block the movement of your competitor, your opponent does not even get a chance to roll the dice, that means you shift your chips and toss the dice yet again. You’ll be a winner for sure.
The Back Game Strategy
The goals of the Back Game strategy and the Blocking Game plan are similar – to harm your opponent’s positions in hope to better your odds of succeeding, however the Back Game tactic relies on different tactics to do that. The Back Game tactic is generally used when you’re far behind your opponent. To compete in Backgammon with this tactic, you need to hold 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This tactic is more difficult than others to play in Backgammon because it needs careful movement of your chips and how the pieces are moved is partially the result of the dice toss.