Posted by Darien | Posted in Backgammon | Posted on 11-11-2015
As we dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a game of skill and pure luck. The aim is to move your checkers safely around the game board to your inside board while at the same time your opposing player shifts their pieces toward their inside board in the opposing direction. With competing player pieces heading in opposite directions there is bound to be conflict and the need for particular techniques at specific instances. Here are the last 2 Backgammon tactics to finish off your game.
The Priming Game Strategy
If the aim of the blocking strategy is to slow down the opponent to move their pieces, the Priming Game strategy is to completely stop any movement of the opposing player by assembling a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s chips will either get bumped, or end up in a damaged position if he ever attempts to escape the wall. The trap of the prime can be built anywhere between point 2 and point 11 in your game board. As soon as you’ve successfully built the prime to stop the activity of your competitor, the opponent does not even get to toss the dice, and you shift your chips and toss the dice again. You’ll win the game for sure.
The Back Game Tactic
The goals of the Back Game plan and the Blocking Game plan are similar – to harm your competitor’s positions in hope to boost your chances of winning, but the Back Game plan utilizes seperate techniques to achieve that. The Back Game technique is generally used when you are far behind your competitor. To compete in Backgammon with this plan, you have to control two or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This strategy is more challenging than others to use in Backgammon seeing as it needs careful movement of your pieces and how the pieces are relocated is partially the outcome of the dice roll.