The Essential Basics of Backgammon Strategies – Part Two
Posted in Backgammon on 07/24/2019 11:25 pm by Jillian
As we dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a casino game of skill and luck. The aim is to shift your checkers safely around the board to your home board and at the same time your opposing player shifts their chips toward their inside board in the opposing direction. With opposing player pieces heading in opposite directions there is going to be conflict and the need for specific tactics at particular times. Here are the last two Backgammon tactics to finish off your game.
The Priming Game Strategy
If the goal of the blocking tactic is to hamper the opponents ability to move her pieces, the Priming Game plan is to completely block 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 she ever tries to leave the wall. The trap of the prime can be setup anyplace between point 2 and point eleven in your half of the board. Once you have successfully assembled the prime to prevent the movement of the opponent, the opponent doesn’t even get to roll the dice, and you shift your chips and roll the dice again. You’ll win the game for sure.
The Back Game Strategy
The goals of the Back Game technique and the Blocking Game tactic are very similar – to hurt your competitor’s positions hoping to better your odds of winning, but the Back Game technique relies on different tactics to do that. The Back Game strategy is commonly employed when you’re far behind your competitor. To participate in Backgammon with this technique, you need to hold 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single piece) late in the game. This strategy is more complex than others to use in Backgammon seeing as it requires careful movement of your chips and how the pieces are moved is partly the result of the dice roll.