Posted by Darien | Posted in Backgammon | Posted on 09-03-2022
As we dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a game of ability and good luck. The goal is to move your pieces carefully around the board to your home board and at the same time your opposition moves their checkers toward their home board in the opposite direction. With competing player pieces moving in opposing directions there is bound to be conflict and the need for particular techniques at particular times. Here are the last 2 Backgammon plans to round out your game.
The Priming Game Strategy
If the goal of the blocking strategy is to hamper the opponents ability to move their pieces, the Priming Game plan is to completely block any movement of the opposing player by building a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s pieces will either get hit, or result a battered position if he at all tries to leave the wall. The ambush of the prime can be established anywhere between point 2 and point eleven in your half of the board. After you’ve successfully built the prime to block the movement of your competitor, the competitor doesn’t even get to roll the dice, and you move your chips and roll the dice again. You’ll win the game for sure.
The Back Game Technique
The objectives of the Back Game tactic and the Blocking Game tactic are very similar – to hinder your competitor’s positions in hope to boost your chances of succeeding, but the Back Game technique uses seperate techniques to do that. The Back Game plan is generally employed when you’re far behind your opponent. To compete in Backgammon with this tactic, you have to control 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single checker) late in the game. This plan is more challenging than others to employ in Backgammon seeing as it requires careful movement of your checkers and how the pieces are moved is partially the result of the dice toss.