Posted by Darien | Posted in Backgammon | Posted on 12-07-2020
As we have dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a game of ability and good luck. The goal is to shift your chips safely around the board to your inside board while at the same time your opposing player moves their chips toward their home board in the opposing direction. With competing player checkers shifting in opposing directions there is going to be conflict and the need for specific strategies at particular instances. Here are the last 2 Backgammon tactics to finish off your game.
The Priming Game Strategy
If the aim of the blocking strategy is to slow down the opponent to move their checkers, the Priming Game plan is to completely block any activity of the opposing player by constructing a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s checkers will either get bumped, or end up in a battered position if he ever attempts to escape the wall. The trap of the prime can be established anywhere between point 2 and point 11 in your game board. As soon as you’ve successfully built the prime to prevent the movement of your opponent, the competitor doesn’t even get to toss the dice, that means you move your chips and toss the dice again. You’ll be a winner for sure.
The Back Game Strategy
The goals of the Back Game strategy and the Blocking Game strategy are similar – to hurt your competitor’s positions with hope to better your odds of winning, however the Back Game plan utilizes different techniques to achieve that. The Back Game tactic is often employed when you’re far behind your competitor. To compete in Backgammon with this plan, you need to hold two or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single checker) late in the game. This technique is more complex than others to play in Backgammon seeing as it requires careful movement of your pieces and how the checkers are moved is partly the outcome of the dice toss.