The Essential Basics of Backgammon Tactics – Part Two
As we have dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a casino game of skill and pure luck. The aim is to shift your pieces safely around the board to your inside board while at the same time your opponent moves their chips toward their home 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 instances. Here are the two final Backgammon plans to complete your game.
The Priming Game Tactic
If the goal of the blocking strategy is to hamper the opponents ability to move her checkers, the Priming Game plan is to completely barricade any activity of the opposing player by creating a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s checkers will either get bumped, or result a damaged position if she at all attempts to escape the wall. The ambush of the prime can be built anyplace between point two and point eleven in your board. Once you have successfully constructed the prime to prevent the activity of the competitor, your competitor does not even get a chance to roll the dice, and you shift your chips and roll the dice again. You’ll be a winner for sure.
The Back Game Plan
The aims of the Back Game strategy and the Blocking Game technique are very similar – to hurt your competitor’s positions hoping to improve your odds of winning, but the Back Game technique utilizes seperate tactics to do that. The Back Game strategy is often used when you are far behind your opponent. To play Backgammon with this technique, you have to control 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single piece) late in the game. This plan is more difficult than others to employ in Backgammon seeing as it needs careful movement of your chips and how the pieces are moved is partially the result of the dice roll.
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