The Basics of Backgammon Game Plans – Part 2
Posted in Backgammon on 01/23/2021 10:25 pm by Jillian
As we dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a casino game of ability and luck. The goal is to move your checkers safely around the board to your inner board and at the same time your opponent moves their chips toward their inside board in the opposite direction. With competing player chips heading in opposite directions there is bound to be conflict and the need for particular tactics at specific times. Here are the two final Backgammon strategies to complete your game.
The Priming Game Tactic
If the purpose of the blocking strategy is to hamper the opponents ability to shift their checkers, the Priming Game tactic is to absolutely block any activity of the opponent by creating a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s chips will either get bumped, or end up in a bad position if she ever attempts to leave the wall. The ambush of the prime can be established anyplace between point 2 and point eleven in your game board. As soon as you have successfully built the prime to block the movement of the competitor, your opponent doesn’t even get a chance to toss the dice, that means you shift your chips and toss the dice again. You’ll be a winner for sure.
The Back Game Plan
The objectives of the Back Game technique and the Blocking Game strategy are similar – to harm your competitor’s positions in hope to improve your odds of succeeding, but the Back Game technique uses alternate techniques to achieve that. The Back Game strategy is commonly used when you’re far behind your competitor. To play Backgammon with this technique, you have to control two or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This tactic is more complex than others to use in Backgammon because it requires careful movement of your pieces and how the checkers are moved is partly the result of the dice roll.