The Basics of Backgammon Tactics – Part Two
Posted in Backgammon on 11/02/2019 05:25 am by Jillian
As we have dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a casino game of skill and pure luck. The goal is to move your checkers safely around the game board to your inner board while at the same time your opposing player shifts their chips toward their inside board in the opposite direction. With competing player checkers heading in opposing directions there is going to be conflict and the need for specific techniques at specific times. Here are the last two Backgammon tactics to complete your game.
The Priming Game Strategy
If the purpose of the blocking tactic is to hamper the opponents ability to shift her checkers, the Priming Game plan is to absolutely barricade any movement of the opposing player by creating a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s chips will either get hit, or result a damaged position if she at all attempts to escape the wall. The ambush of the prime can be established anyplace between point 2 and point eleven in your board. Once you have successfully assembled the prime to prevent the activity of the competitor, your opponent doesn’t even get a chance to roll the dice, and you move your chips and roll the dice again. You’ll win the game for sure.
The Back Game Tactic
The aims of the Back Game tactic and the Blocking Game technique are similar – to hurt your competitor’s positions hoping to boost your odds of winning, but the Back Game plan utilizes seperate tactics to achieve that. The Back Game technique is commonly employed when you’re far behind your opponent. To participate in Backgammon with this plan, you have to control two or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This plan is more difficult than others to play in Backgammon because it requires careful movement of your pieces and how the checkers are moved is partly the outcome of the dice toss.