The Essential Basics of Backgammon Strategies – Part Two
Posted in Backgammon on 03/20/2024 07:25 pm by Jillian
As we dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a casino game of skill and luck. The aim is to move your chips carefully around the board to your inside board while at the same time your opposing player moves their checkers toward their inside board in the opposite direction. With competing player chips moving in opposite directions there is going to be conflict and the need for specific tactics at specific times. Here are the last two Backgammon strategies to finish off your game.
The Priming Game Tactic
If the purpose of the blocking plan is to hamper the opponents ability to shift her checkers, the Priming Game strategy is to completely barricade any activity of the opponent by creating a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s chips will either get hit, or result a bad position if she at all tries to leave the wall. The ambush of the prime can be established anyplace between point 2 and point eleven in your board. After you’ve successfully assembled the prime to prevent the movement of your competitor, your competitor doesn’t even get to toss the dice, that means you move your pieces and toss the dice yet again. You will be a winner for sure.
The Back Game Plan
The objectives of the Back Game tactic and the Blocking Game tactic are very similar – to harm your competitor’s positions hoping to boost your odds of succeeding, however the Back Game tactic utilizes seperate tactics to do that. The Back Game strategy is commonly utilized when you are far behind your opponent. To play Backgammon with this strategy, 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 because it needs careful movement of your chips and how the pieces are relocated is partially the outcome of the dice roll.