Posted by Darien | Posted in Backgammon | Posted on 24-01-2019
As we have dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a casino game of talent and luck. The goal is to shift your pieces carefully around the board to your home board and at the same time your opponent moves their pieces toward their home board in the opposing direction. With opposing player checkers heading in opposing directions there is bound to be conflict and the need for specific tactics at particular instances. Here are the last two Backgammon techniques to round out your game.
The Priming Game Strategy
If the goal of the blocking tactic is to slow down the opponent to move her pieces, the Priming Game strategy is to completely block any activity of the opposing player by building a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s chips will either get hit, or end up in a damaged position if he ever attempts to escape the wall. The trap of the prime can be built anyplace between point 2 and point eleven in your game board. After you have successfully built the prime to block the movement of your competitor, the competitor does not even get a chance to roll the dice, that means you move your pieces and toss the dice yet again. You will be a winner for sure.
The Back Game Strategy
The aims of the Back Game plan and the Blocking Game strategy are very similar – to hurt your competitor’s positions with hope to improve your odds of winning, however the Back Game strategy uses seperate techniques to do that. The Back Game technique is commonly used when you’re far behind your competitor. To play Backgammon with this strategy, you need to control 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This technique is more complex than others to employ in Backgammon seeing as it requires careful movement of your checkers and how the pieces are relocated is partly the result of the dice roll.