The Essential Facts of Backgammon Game Plans – Part 2
Posted in Backgammon on 05/04/2022 05:25 pm by Jillian
As we dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a game of skill and luck. The goal is to shift your checkers safely around the board to your inside board while at the same time your opponent shifts their pieces toward their inner board in the opposite direction. With competing player pieces heading in opposing directions there is bound to be conflict and the need for specific techniques at specific instances. Here are the last two Backgammon tactics to round out your game.
The Priming Game Tactic
If the goal of the blocking strategy is to hamper the opponents ability to shift his chips, the Priming Game tactic is to completely barricade any activity of the opponent 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 attempts to escape the wall. The ambush of the prime can be built anywhere between point 2 and point eleven in your game board. Once you have successfully constructed the prime to block the activity of the competitor, your opponent does not even get a chance to roll the dice, that means you move your chips and roll the dice again. You will win the game for sure.
The Back Game Tactic
The objectives of the Back Game strategy and the Blocking Game strategy are very similar – to hurt your opponent’s positions hoping to improve your odds of winning, but the Back Game technique utilizes different techniques to achieve that. The Back Game strategy is often employed when you are far behind your opponent. To compete in Backgammon with this tactic, you have to control 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single checker) late in the game. This plan is more complex than others to use in Backgammon because it requires careful movement of your chips and how the checkers are relocated is partly the result of the dice roll.