Posted by Darien | Posted in Backgammon | Posted on 18-01-2025
As we dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a casino game of talent and pure luck. The goal is to move your checkers carefully around the board to your inner board and at the same time your opponent shifts their pieces toward their inside board in the opposing direction. With competing player pieces shifting in opposite directions there is bound to be conflict and the requirement for specific strategies at specific times. Here are the last two Backgammon plans to finish off your game.
The Priming Game Plan
If the goal of the blocking strategy is to hamper the opponents ability to shift their chips, the Priming Game strategy is to completely block any activity of the opponent by assembling a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s checkers will either get hit, or end up in a battered position if he ever tries to leave the wall. The ambush of the prime can be setup anyplace between point two and point eleven in your game board. As soon as you have successfully built the prime to stop the movement of the competitor, your opponent does not even get to toss the dice, and you move your checkers and roll the dice again. You’ll win the game for sure.
The Back Game Technique
The aims of the Back Game tactic and the Blocking Game strategy are very similar – to hinder your opponent’s positions in hope to boost your odds of succeeding, but the Back Game strategy uses seperate tactics to achieve that. The Back Game strategy is frequently used when you’re far behind your opponent. To play Backgammon with this technique, you need to hold 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This technique is more complex than others to use in Backgammon because it needs careful movement of your chips and how the chips are relocated is partly the outcome of the dice toss.