Posted by Darien | Posted in Backgammon | Posted on 03-11-2015
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 home board while at the same time your opposing player moves their pieces toward their inside board in the opposing direction. With competing player chips moving in opposing directions there is going to be conflict and the requirement for specific strategies at specific times. Here are the last 2 Backgammon tactics to complete your game.
The Priming Game Plan
If the aim of the blocking plan is to slow down the opponent to move their pieces, the Priming Game strategy is to absolutely stop any activity of the opposing player by constructing 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 attempts to escape the wall. The ambush of the prime can be setup anywhere between point 2 and point 11 in your board. As soon as you’ve successfully assembled the prime to prevent the movement of your competitor, the competitor does not even get to roll the dice, and you move your chips and roll the dice yet again. You will win the game for sure.
The Back Game Technique
The objectives of the Back Game plan and the Blocking Game tactic are similar – to hurt your competitor’s positions in hope to boost your odds of winning, but the Back Game strategy utilizes alternate tactics to do that. The Back Game strategy is commonly used when you’re far behind your competitor. To play Backgammon with this tactic, you need to control 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This tactic is more difficult than others to employ in Backgammon because it needs careful movement of your pieces and how the checkers are moved is partly the outcome of the dice roll.