Posted by Darien | Posted in Backgammon | Posted on 28-10-2017
As we have dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a casino game of talent and luck. The goal is to shift your checkers safely around the game board to your inner board while at the same time your opposition shifts their chips toward their inner board in the opposite direction. With opposing player pieces heading in opposite directions there is going to be conflict and the requirement for specific tactics at particular times. Here are the last 2 Backgammon techniques to finish off your game.
The Priming Game Tactic
If the goal of the blocking tactic is to hamper the opponents ability to move their chips, the Priming Game plan is to completely barricade any activity of the opposing player by assembling a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s checkers will either get hit, or result a battered position if he at all attempts to escape the wall. The trap of the prime can be setup anywhere between point 2 and point 11 in your half of the board. Once you have successfully constructed the prime to block the activity of the competitor, your opponent doesn’t even get to roll the dice, and you shift your checkers and roll the dice yet again. You’ll win the game for sure.
The Back Game Strategy
The objectives of the Back Game strategy and the Blocking Game technique are similar – to harm your opponent’s positions with hope to boost your odds of winning, but the Back Game strategy uses different tactics to do that. The Back Game technique is generally used when you are far behind your opponent. To compete in Backgammon with this technique, you have to control two or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single checker) late in the game. This tactic is more challenging than others to employ in Backgammon seeing as it requires careful movement of your pieces and how the chips are relocated is partially the result of the dice toss.