Posted by Darien | Posted in Backgammon | Posted on 03-02-2023
As we have dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a game of talent and pure luck. The goal is to move your chips carefully around the game board to your home board while at the same time your opponent shifts their chips toward their home board in the opposite direction. With opposing player chips heading in opposite directions there is going to be conflict and the need for particular tactics at particular times. Here are the 2 final Backgammon plans to round out your game.
The Priming Game Strategy
If the goal of the blocking strategy is to slow down the opponent to shift their checkers, the Priming Game strategy is to completely barricade any activity of the opponent by building a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s pieces will either get hit, or end up in a damaged position if he/she ever tries to escape the wall. The trap of the prime can be setup anywhere between point 2 and point eleven in your game board. After you have successfully built the prime to block the movement of the competitor, the opponent doesn’t even get a chance to toss the dice, and you move your chips and roll the dice again. You will win the game for sure.
The Back Game Strategy
The goals of the Back Game technique and the Blocking Game strategy are similar – to hurt your competitor’s positions with hope to improve your chances of succeeding, but the Back Game tactic uses seperate techniques to achieve that. The Back Game strategy is commonly employed when you’re far behind your opponent. To participate in Backgammon with this technique, you have to control two or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single checker) late in the game. This plan 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 partially the outcome of the dice toss.