The Essential Details of Backgammon Tactics – Part Two
Posted in Backgammon on 04/21/2019 11:25 pm by Jillian
As we dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a casino game of talent and good luck. The goal is to move your chips carefully around the board to your inside board while at the same time your opposing player shifts their chips toward their inside board in the opposing direction. With competing player checkers moving in opposing directions there is bound to be conflict and the need for particular tactics at specific times. Here are the last two Backgammon strategies to complete your game.
The Priming Game Strategy
If the purpose of the blocking tactic is to hamper the opponents ability to shift their pieces, the Priming Game strategy is to absolutely stop any activity of the opposing player by building a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s chips will either get bumped, or result a bad position if he/she ever tries to escape the wall. The ambush of the prime can be setup anywhere between point two and point 11 in your half of the board. Once you’ve successfully constructed the prime to prevent the activity of the competitor, the competitor does not even get to toss the dice, and you shift your checkers and roll the dice again. You’ll be a winner for sure.
The Back Game Technique
The goals of the Back Game tactic and the Blocking Game tactic are very similar – to hurt your opponent’s positions in hope to better your chances of winning, however the Back Game strategy uses different techniques to do that. The Back Game technique is commonly used when you’re far behind your opponent. To play Backgammon with this technique, you need to hold 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This tactic is more challenging than others to employ in Backgammon because it requires careful movement of your checkers and how the checkers are relocated is partially the result of the dice toss.