Posted by Darien | Posted in Backgammon | Posted on 01-08-2018
As we dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a game of skill and pure luck. The aim is to shift your chips safely around the game board to your home board while at the same time your opposition moves their checkers toward their home board in the opposing direction. With opposing player chips moving in opposing directions there is bound to be conflict and the need for particular techniques at particular instances. Here are the last 2 Backgammon techniques to complete your game.
The Priming Game Plan
If the goal of the blocking tactic is to hamper the opponents ability to move her chips, the Priming Game strategy is to absolutely stop any activity of the opponent by creating a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s checkers will either get hit, or end up in a battered position if she at all tries to escape the wall. The ambush of the prime can be established anywhere between point two and point eleven in your board. As soon as you have successfully built the prime to block the activity of your competitor, the opponent doesn’t 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 similar – to hurt your competitor’s positions with hope to boost your odds of succeeding, but the Back Game technique uses alternate techniques to achieve that. The Back Game plan is commonly utilized when you’re far behind your opponent. To compete in Backgammon with this tactic, you need to control two or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single checker) late in the game. This strategy is more difficult than others to play in Backgammon because it requires careful movement of your checkers and how the pieces are relocated is partially the outcome of the dice roll.