Posted by Darien | Posted in Backgammon | Posted on 14-05-2023
As we dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a casino game of skill and good luck. The aim is to shift your pieces safely around the board to your inner board and at the same time your opponent moves their chips toward their home board in the opposite direction. With competing player chips moving in opposing directions there is going to be conflict and the need for particular techniques at specific times. Here are the 2 final Backgammon strategies to round out your game.
The Priming Game Tactic
If the purpose of the blocking tactic is to hamper the opponents ability to move his checkers, the Priming Game strategy is to completely barricade any activity of the opponent by creating a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s pieces will either get bumped, or result a bad position if he/she at all tries to escape the wall. The trap of the prime can be setup anywhere between point two and point eleven in your board. After you have successfully built the prime to block the movement of the opponent, the opponent doesn’t even get a chance to toss the dice, that means you shift your chips and toss the dice again. You will be a winner for sure.
The Back Game Tactic
The goals of the Back Game tactic and the Blocking Game strategy are similar – to harm your competitor’s positions in hope to boost your chances of succeeding, however the Back Game technique uses alternate techniques to do that. The Back Game strategy is commonly used when you are far behind your competitor. To play Backgammon with this plan, you have to control two or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single piece) late in the game. This strategy is more complex than others to use in Backgammon because it needs careful movement of your pieces and how the checkers are relocated is partially the outcome of the dice roll.