Posted by Darien | Posted in Backgammon | Posted on 04-03-2016
As we have dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a game of skill and pure luck. The goal is to move your chips safely around the game board to your inside board while at the same time your opposition moves their pieces toward their inside board in the opposite direction. With opposing player chips shifting in opposite directions there is bound to be conflict and the requirement for specific techniques at specific times. Here are the 2 final Backgammon tactics to finish off your game.
The Priming Game Plan
If the aim of the blocking strategy is to slow down the opponent to shift his checkers, the Priming Game plan is to completely block any activity of the opponent by assembling a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s checkers will either get bumped, or end up in a bad position if she ever tries to leave the wall. The ambush of the prime can be built anyplace between point 2 and point 11 in your game board. As soon as you have successfully built the prime to stop the movement of the competitor, your opponent does not even get a chance to toss the dice, and you shift your checkers and roll the dice yet again. You’ll win the game for sure.
The Back Game Technique
The objectives of the Back Game plan and the Blocking Game plan are similar – to harm your opponent’s positions in hope to boost your chances of winning, but the Back Game plan utilizes alternate tactics to achieve that. The Back Game technique is generally utilized when you are far behind your competitor. To participate in Backgammon with this strategy, you have to hold two or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This technique is more complex than others to play in Backgammon because it requires careful movement of your chips and how the pieces are moved is partly the result of the dice roll.