The Basics of Backgammon Tactics – Part Two
As we dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a game of talent and pure luck. The goal is to shift your pieces safely around the game board to your home board and at the same time your opposing player shifts their checkers toward their home board in the opposite direction. With opposing player pieces moving in opposite directions there is bound to be conflict and the need for specific techniques at specific instances. Here are the last two Backgammon plans to round out your game.
The Priming Game Tactic
If the purpose of the blocking plan is to hamper the opponents ability to shift his chips, the Priming Game strategy is to absolutely stop any movement of the opposing player by assembling a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s chips will either get hit, or result a damaged position if he/she at all attempts to leave the wall. The ambush of the prime can be setup anywhere between point two and point eleven in your game board. Once you have successfully built the prime to block the activity of your competitor, the competitor doesn’t even get a chance to toss the dice, that means you move your pieces and toss the dice yet again. You will be a winner for sure.
The Back Game Tactic
The objectives of the Back Game technique and the Blocking Game technique are very similar – to hurt your opponent’s positions hoping to boost your odds of winning, but the Back Game plan utilizes different techniques to do that. The Back Game strategy is commonly used when you are far behind your competitor. To play Backgammon with this technique, you have to hold two or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This technique is more difficult than others to employ in Backgammon because it requires careful movement of your checkers and how the chips are moved is partly the result of the dice toss.
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