The Essential Basics of Backgammon Tactics – Part 2
As we have dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a casino game of skill and luck. The goal is to shift your chips carefully around the board to your home board and at the same time your opposing player moves their pieces toward their inner board in the opposite direction. With competing player checkers shifting in opposing directions there is bound to be conflict and the need for particular tactics at specific times. Here are the last two Backgammon techniques to finish off your game.
The Priming Game Plan
If the purpose of the blocking tactic is to hamper the opponents ability to move his chips, the Priming Game plan is to absolutely block any movement of the opponent by assembling a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s chips will either get bumped, or result a damaged position if he/she ever tries to escape the wall. The ambush of the prime can be setup anywhere between point 2 and point eleven in your game board. After you have successfully assembled the prime to prevent the movement of the opponent, the opponent does not even get a chance to roll the dice, that means you shift your pieces and toss the dice yet again. You will be a winner for sure.
The Back Game Technique
The goals of the Back Game plan and the Blocking Game strategy are similar – to harm your opponent’s positions hoping to better your odds of succeeding, however the Back Game plan relies on different tactics to do that. The Back Game technique is commonly employed when you’re far behind your competitor. To play Backgammon with this plan, you need to hold 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This tactic is more difficult than others to employ in Backgammon because it needs careful movement of your checkers and how the checkers are relocated is partially the outcome of the dice toss.
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