The Essential Basics of Backgammon Strategies – Part Two
As we have dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a game of ability and pure luck. The aim is to move your pieces carefully around the board to your home board and at the same time your opposition moves their checkers toward their home board in the opposite direction. With competing player checkers shifting in opposite directions there is bound to be conflict and the need for specific strategies at specific instances. Here are the two final Backgammon plans to complete your game.
The Priming Game Plan
If the aim of the blocking strategy is to hamper the opponents ability to move his pieces, the Priming Game strategy is to completely block any movement of the opposing player by building a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s pieces will either get hit, or end up in a battered position if he/she ever attempts to leave the wall. The ambush of the prime can be established anyplace between point two and point eleven in your game board. As soon as you have successfully built the prime to block the activity of your competitor, your competitor doesn’t even get a chance to roll the dice, and you move your pieces and roll the dice again. You’ll win the game for sure.
The Back Game Technique
The goals of the Back Game strategy and the Blocking Game strategy are similar – to hinder your competitor’s positions with hope to boost your odds of succeeding, however the Back Game tactic uses seperate techniques to achieve that. The Back Game plan is commonly used when you are far behind your competitor. To play Backgammon with this tactic, you have to hold two or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single checker) 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 checkers are relocated is partly the result of the dice roll.
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