The Essential Facts of Backgammon Tactics – Part 2
As we have dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a game of ability and luck. The aim is to shift your chips safely around the game board to your inside board while at the same time your opposition shifts their pieces toward their home board in the opposite direction. With opposing player pieces moving in opposite directions there is going to be conflict and the need for specific tactics at specific instances. Here are the 2 final Backgammon techniques to complete your game.
The Priming Game Plan
If the purpose of the blocking strategy is to hamper the opponents ability to move her checkers, the Priming Game tactic is to absolutely block any activity of the opponent by creating a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s chips will either get bumped, or result a bad position if she ever tries to escape the wall. The trap of the prime can be setup anyplace between point two and point 11 in your game board. As soon as you have successfully built the prime to stop the activity of your competitor, the opponent doesn’t even get to toss the dice, that means you move your chips and roll the dice yet again. You will be a winner for sure.
The Back Game Plan
The aims of the Back Game strategy and the Blocking Game plan are similar – to hurt your competitor’s positions hoping to improve your odds of succeeding, however the Back Game plan uses different tactics to achieve that. The Back Game plan is frequently used when you are far behind your competitor. To participate in Backgammon with this strategy, you need to control 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single checker) late in the game. This plan is more difficult than others to use in Backgammon because it requires careful movement of your pieces and how the pieces are relocated is partly the result of the dice roll.
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