Posted by Darien | Posted in Backgammon | Posted on 21-01-2017
As we have dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a game of talent and pure luck. The goal is to shift your chips carefully around the game board to your inside board and at the same time your opponent moves their chips toward their home board in the opposite direction. With competing player chips heading in opposing directions there is bound to be conflict and the requirement for specific techniques at particular times. Here are the 2 final Backgammon tactics to round out your game.
The Priming Game Tactic
If the purpose of the blocking strategy is to slow down the opponent to shift his checkers, the Priming Game strategy is to absolutely barricade any movement of the opposing player by building a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s chips will either get bumped, or result a damaged position if he at all tries to leave the wall. The trap of the prime can be built anywhere between point two and point 11 in your game board. As soon as you have successfully built the prime to stop the activity of the opponent, your competitor does not even get a chance to roll the dice, and you move your pieces and toss the dice again. You’ll win the game for sure.
The Back Game Technique
The aims of the Back Game tactic and the Blocking Game tactic are very similar – to hinder your competitor’s positions with hope to better your chances of winning, however the Back Game tactic utilizes seperate tactics to achieve that. The Back Game tactic is often used when you’re far behind your competitor. To play Backgammon with this plan, you have to hold two or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single piece) late in the game. This tactic is more difficult than others to play in Backgammon seeing as it needs careful movement of your checkers and how the checkers are moved is partially the result of the dice toss.