Posted by Darien | Posted in Backgammon | Posted on 17-12-2015
As we dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a game of talent and luck. The aim is to shift your pieces carefully around the board to your inside board and at the same time your opponent shifts their chips toward their home board in the opposite direction. With opposing player pieces heading in opposite directions there is going to be conflict and the need for particular techniques at specific times. Here are the two final Backgammon plans to round out your game.
The Priming Game Plan
If the goal of the blocking plan is to hamper the opponents ability to shift his pieces, 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 chips will either get hit, or end up in a bad position if he at all tries to escape the wall. The trap of the prime can be built anywhere between point 2 and point eleven in your game board. As soon as you’ve successfully assembled the prime to stop the movement of the opponent, your opponent doesn’t even get a chance to roll the dice, that means you move your chips and toss the dice yet again. You will be a winner for sure.
The Back Game Plan
The aims of the Back Game strategy and the Blocking Game strategy are similar – to hinder your opponent’s positions in hope to improve your chances of winning, however the Back Game strategy relies on seperate tactics to achieve that. The Back Game tactic is commonly utilized when you’re far behind your competitor. To participate in Backgammon with this strategy, you need to hold 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This plan is more complex than others to play in Backgammon because it needs careful movement of your pieces and how the pieces are moved is partly the result of the dice toss.