The Basics of Backgammon Tactics – Part Two
As we have dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a game of talent and luck. The aim is to move your chips carefully around the board to your home board and at the same time your opponent moves their checkers toward their inside board in the opposite direction. With opposing player chips moving in opposite directions there is bound to be conflict and the requirement for specific techniques at particular instances. Here are the last 2 Backgammon strategies to finish off your game.
The Priming Game Plan
If the goal of the blocking plan is to hamper the opponents ability to shift her chips, the Priming Game plan is to absolutely stop any movement of the opponent by assembling a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s pieces will either get bumped, or end up in a bad position if he ever tries to leave the wall. The trap of the prime can be built anyplace between point 2 and point eleven in your board. Once you have successfully built the prime to stop the movement of the competitor, your opponent doesn’t even get to roll the dice, that means you move your chips and roll the dice again. You’ll win the game for sure.
The Back Game Tactic
The objectives of the Back Game tactic and the Blocking Game strategy are very similar – to harm your competitor’s positions with hope to boost your odds of succeeding, but the Back Game technique relies on seperate techniques to do that. The Back Game tactic is often utilized when you are far behind your competitor. To compete in Backgammon with this strategy, you have to hold 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single piece) late in the game. This technique is more complex than others to employ in Backgammon because it requires careful movement of your pieces and how the pieces are relocated is partly the result of the dice toss.
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