Posted by Darien | Posted in Backgammon | Posted on 17-05-2020
As we dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a casino game of ability and pure luck. The aim is to shift your chips carefully around the board to your home board while at the same time your opposing player shifts their pieces toward their inside board in the opposite direction. With competing player chips moving in opposing directions there is bound to be conflict and the requirement for specific techniques at specific instances. Here are the last 2 Backgammon strategies to round out your game.
The Priming Game Plan
If the aim of the blocking plan is to hamper the opponents ability to move his pieces, the Priming Game tactic is to completely barricade any movement of the opposing player by assembling a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s chips will either get bumped, or result a battered position if he/she ever attempts to leave the wall. The trap of the prime can be setup anyplace between point 2 and point 11 in your half of the board. Once you have successfully built the prime to prevent the activity of your opponent, the competitor doesn’t even get a chance to toss the dice, that means you shift your chips and roll the dice again. You’ll win the game for sure.
The Back Game Plan
The objectives of the Back Game technique and the Blocking Game tactic are very similar – to harm your competitor’s positions in hope to better your odds of succeeding, but the Back Game strategy relies on seperate tactics to achieve that. The Back Game plan is often used when you are far behind your competitor. To play Backgammon with this strategy, you need to hold 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single piece) late in the game. This technique is more difficult than others to employ in Backgammon because it needs careful movement of your checkers and how the chips are relocated is partly the outcome of the dice toss.