The Essential Facts of Backgammon Strategies – Part Two
Posted in Backgammon on 05/07/2019 05:25 pm by Jillian
As we have dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a game of skill and good luck. The goal is to move your pieces carefully around the game board to your home board and at the same time your opposition shifts their checkers toward their inside board in the opposing direction. With competing player checkers moving in opposite directions there is going to be conflict and the requirement for particular tactics at particular instances. Here are the two final Backgammon strategies to round out your game.
The Priming Game Plan
If the aim of the blocking tactic is to hamper the opponents ability to move his checkers, the Priming Game plan is to completely barricade any movement of the opposing player by constructing a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s checkers will either get bumped, or end up in a battered position if he/she at all attempts to leave the wall. The trap of the prime can be established anyplace between point two and point 11 in your half of the board. Once you have successfully built the prime to stop the activity of the competitor, the competitor doesn’t even get to toss the dice, and you shift your pieces and roll the dice again. You will be a winner for sure.
The Back Game Strategy
The goals of the Back Game technique and the Blocking Game technique are similar – to harm your competitor’s positions hoping to boost your odds of succeeding, however the Back Game strategy relies on alternate tactics to achieve that. The Back Game plan is commonly utilized when you’re far behind your competitor. To play Backgammon with this strategy, you have to control 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This technique is more difficult than others to employ in Backgammon because it requires careful movement of your pieces and how the checkers are relocated is partly the outcome of the dice toss.