The Essential Basics of Backgammon Strategies – Part Two
As we dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a game of ability and good luck. The aim is to move your pieces safely around the board to your inner board and at the same time your opposition moves their chips toward their inside board in the opposing direction. With opposing player pieces heading in opposite directions there is bound to be conflict and the need for specific strategies at specific times. Here are the two final Backgammon strategies to complete your game.
The Priming Game Strategy
If the aim of the blocking tactic is to hamper the opponents ability to move his pieces, the Priming Game strategy is to absolutely stop any movement of the opponent by assembling a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s checkers will either get bumped, or result a damaged position if he/she at all tries to leave the wall. The ambush of the prime can be setup anywhere between point two and point eleven in your game board. As soon as you’ve successfully built the prime to block the movement of your opponent, your opponent does not even get a chance to toss the dice, and you move your checkers and toss the dice yet again. You’ll win the game for sure.
The Back Game Strategy
The goals of the Back Game tactic and the Blocking Game technique are similar – to hinder your opponent’s positions hoping to boost your chances of winning, but the Back Game strategy uses alternate tactics to do that. The Back Game technique is frequently utilized when you are far behind your opponent. To play 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 strategy is more difficult than others to employ in Backgammon because it requires careful movement of your checkers and how the chips are moved is partially the outcome of the dice toss.
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