The Essential Facts of Backgammon Tactics – Part Two
Posted in Backgammon on 12/28/2019 02:25 pm by Jillian
As we have dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a casino game of talent and pure luck. The aim is to move your chips carefully around the game board to your inside board and at the same time your opponent moves their pieces toward their inner board in the opposite direction. With competing player pieces moving in opposing directions there is bound to be conflict and the need for particular strategies at specific times. Here are the last 2 Backgammon strategies to complete your game.
The Priming Game Plan
If the goal of the blocking strategy is to hamper the opponents ability to move her chips, the Priming Game plan is to completely barricade any activity of the opponent by creating a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s pieces will either get hit, or end up in a battered position if he ever tries to leave the wall. The ambush of the prime can be established anywhere between point two and point 11 in your board. After you’ve successfully constructed the prime to prevent the activity of the competitor, the opponent doesn’t even get a chance to roll the dice, that means you shift your chips and toss the dice again. You’ll be a winner for sure.
The Back Game Tactic
The objectives of the Back Game tactic and the Blocking Game tactic are similar – to harm your opponent’s positions in hope to boost your chances of succeeding, but the Back Game technique utilizes seperate tactics to do that. The Back Game strategy is generally utilized when you are far behind your opponent. To compete 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 challenging than others to employ in Backgammon seeing as it needs careful movement of your chips and how the checkers are moved is partly the result of the dice roll.