The Basics of Backgammon Strategies – Part 2
As we dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a casino game of ability and pure luck. The goal is to move your checkers safely around the board to your inner board while at the same time your opponent moves their checkers toward their inside board in the opposite direction. With opposing player pieces shifting in opposing directions there is bound to be conflict and the need for specific strategies at particular instances. Here are the two final Backgammon tactics to finish off your game.
The Priming Game Tactic
If the aim of the blocking strategy is to hamper the opponents ability to move her pieces, the Priming Game plan is to absolutely stop any movement of the opposing player by building a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s chips will either get bumped, or end up in a battered position if she at all attempts to leave the wall. The ambush of the prime can be built anyplace between point two and point eleven in your board. After you’ve successfully built the prime to prevent the movement of your competitor, your opponent does not even get to toss the dice, and you move your pieces and toss the dice again. You’ll win the game for sure.
The Back Game Tactic
The aims of the Back Game tactic and the Blocking Game plan are very similar – to hurt your competitor’s positions hoping to boost your chances of succeeding, however the Back Game strategy utilizes seperate techniques to do that. The Back Game plan is often employed when you are far behind your competitor. To play Backgammon with this technique, you have to control 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This tactic is more complex than others to play in Backgammon because it requires careful movement of your pieces and how the pieces are moved is partially the result of the dice toss.
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