Posted by Darien | Posted in Backgammon | Posted on 25-10-2015
As we dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a game of ability and pure luck. The goal is to shift your chips carefully around the game board to your inside board and at the same time your opponent shifts their chips toward their home board in the opposing direction. With opposing player checkers shifting in opposing directions there is going to be conflict and the requirement for particular strategies at specific times. Here are the 2 final Backgammon tactics to finish off your game.
The Priming Game Plan
If the goal of the blocking strategy is to slow down the opponent to move their chips, the Priming Game plan is to absolutely block any movement of the opponent by creating a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s pieces will either get hit, or result a bad position if he/she ever tries to escape the wall. The trap of the prime can be built anyplace between point two and point 11 in your half of the board. Once you’ve successfully constructed the prime to prevent the movement of your opponent, your opponent does not even get to toss the dice, that means you move your pieces and roll the dice again. You’ll win the game for sure.
The Back Game Strategy
The objectives of the Back Game plan and the Blocking Game tactic are very similar – to hurt your opponent’s positions in hope to better your odds of winning, however the Back Game strategy uses seperate tactics to achieve that. The Back Game plan is often employed when you are far behind your opponent. To participate in Backgammon with this tactic, you have to hold two or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single piece) late in the game. This technique is more complex than others to use in Backgammon seeing as it needs careful movement of your checkers and how the checkers are relocated is partially the result of the dice toss.