The Essential Facts of Backgammon Tactics – Part 2
As we dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a casino game of skill and pure luck. The aim is to shift your checkers carefully around the board to your home board while at the same time your opponent moves their pieces toward their inner board in the opposite direction. With opposing player pieces moving in opposing directions there is going to be conflict and the need for particular techniques at particular times. Here are the two final Backgammon plans to complete your game.
The Priming Game Plan
If the aim of the blocking strategy is to slow down the opponent to shift her chips, the Priming Game plan is to absolutely barricade any activity of the opposing player by constructing a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s chips will either get bumped, or end up in a bad position if he/she at all tries to leave the wall. The trap of the prime can be built anywhere between point two and point 11 in your half of the board. Once you’ve successfully assembled the prime to block the activity of the competitor, your competitor does not even get a chance to roll the dice, and you shift your chips and toss the dice yet again. You will win the game for sure.
The Back Game Tactic
The goals of the Back Game technique and the Blocking Game plan are very similar – to harm your opponent’s positions with hope to improve your chances of succeeding, but the Back Game technique uses different tactics to achieve that. The Back Game strategy is frequently utilized when you’re far behind your competitor. To play Backgammon with this strategy, you need to hold two or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single piece) late in the game. This plan is more challenging than others to use in Backgammon because it requires careful movement of your pieces and how the checkers are relocated is partially the result of the dice roll.
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