The Basics of Backgammon Strategies – Part 2
As we dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a game of ability and pure luck. The goal is to shift your pieces safely around the board to your inside board while at the same time your opposing player shifts their checkers toward their home board in the opposite direction. With opposing player pieces shifting in opposite directions there is bound to be conflict and the requirement for particular strategies at specific times. Here are the two final Backgammon plans to round out your game.
The Priming Game Plan
If the purpose of the blocking tactic is to hamper the opponents ability to move her chips, the Priming Game tactic is to completely block any movement of the opponent by building a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s chips will either get hit, or result a damaged position if he/she ever tries to escape the wall. The ambush of the prime can be built anywhere between point 2 and point eleven in your board. As soon as you’ve successfully built the prime to block the activity of your competitor, the competitor doesn’t even get a chance to roll the dice, that means you move your pieces and roll the dice yet again. You’ll win the game for sure.
The Back Game Plan
The aims of the Back Game tactic and the Blocking Game technique are very similar – to hurt your competitor’s positions with hope to improve your odds of succeeding, but the Back Game plan utilizes different techniques to achieve that. The Back Game tactic is often used when you are far behind your opponent. To play Backgammon with this strategy, you have to control 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This tactic is more challenging than others to use in Backgammon because it needs careful movement of your pieces and how the chips are relocated is partially the outcome of the dice roll.
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