Posted by Darien | Posted in Backgammon | Posted on 06-03-2016
As we have dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a casino game of skill and pure luck. The aim is to shift your chips carefully around the board to your home board and at the same time your opponent shifts their chips toward their inside board in the opposing direction. With competing player chips heading in opposite directions there is going to be conflict and the need for specific tactics at particular instances. Here are the 2 final Backgammon techniques to finish off your game.
The Priming Game Strategy
If the purpose of the blocking strategy is to hamper the opponents ability to shift his chips, the Priming Game tactic is to completely barricade any movement of the opponent by building a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s checkers will either get bumped, or result a battered position if he ever attempts to leave the wall. The trap of the prime can be established anywhere between point two and point 11 in your game board. Once you’ve successfully assembled the prime to stop the activity of the competitor, the opponent does not even get a chance to roll the dice, and you move your chips and toss the dice again. You’ll win the game for sure.
The Back Game Tactic
The objectives of the Back Game tactic and the Blocking Game tactic are similar – to hurt your competitor’s positions in hope to improve your odds of winning, but the Back Game technique relies on different techniques to achieve that. The Back Game strategy is often utilized when you are far behind your opponent. To play Backgammon with this technique, you have to control two or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This plan is more difficult than others to use in Backgammon seeing as it needs careful movement of your checkers and how the pieces are moved is partially the result of the dice toss.