Posted by Darien | Posted in Backgammon | Posted on 27-02-2016
As we have dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a casino game of ability and good luck. The goal is to move your chips carefully around the game board to your home board and at the same time your opposing player moves their pieces toward their home board in the opposing direction. With competing player pieces moving in opposing directions there is going to be conflict and the requirement for particular strategies at particular instances. Here are the 2 final Backgammon plans to round out your game.
The Priming Game Plan
If the purpose of the blocking plan is to slow down the opponent to shift his chips, the Priming Game tactic is to completely barricade any activity of the opposing player by building a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s checkers will either get bumped, or end up in a bad position if he/she ever attempts to leave the wall. The trap of the prime can be setup anywhere between point two and point 11 in your half of the board. After you’ve successfully built the prime to prevent the activity of your competitor, your competitor does not even get to toss the dice, and you move your pieces and roll the dice yet again. You’ll be a winner for sure.
The Back Game Tactic
The aims of the Back Game technique and the Blocking Game tactic are very similar – to hinder your opponent’s positions with hope to better your odds of succeeding, but the Back Game plan uses alternate tactics to achieve that. The Back Game technique is commonly utilized when you’re far behind your opponent. To play Backgammon with this plan, 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 seeing as it needs careful movement of your pieces and how the pieces are moved is partly the result of the dice toss.