The Essential Details of Backgammon Strategies – Part Two
As we dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a game of ability and luck. The aim is to shift your chips carefully around the board to your home board and at the same time your opposing player moves their chips toward their inner board in the opposite direction. With competing player pieces heading in opposing directions there is going to be conflict and the need for particular strategies at particular times. Here are the last 2 Backgammon tactics to round out your game.
The Priming Game Plan
If the goal of the blocking plan is to hamper the opponents ability to move her chips, the Priming Game tactic is to absolutely block any activity of the opponent by constructing a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s chips will either get bumped, or end up in a bad position if she ever attempts to leave the wall. The trap of the prime can be built anywhere between point two and point 11 in your game board. Once you have successfully assembled the prime to stop the activity of the competitor, your opponent doesn’t even get a chance to roll the dice, and you move your pieces and roll the dice again. You will win the game for sure.
The Back Game Tactic
The aims of the Back Game strategy and the Blocking Game plan are similar – to hinder your opponent’s positions in hope to better your odds of winning, however the Back Game plan uses alternate tactics to do that. The Back Game strategy is commonly utilized when you’re far behind your opponent. To play Backgammon with this tactic, you need to hold two or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single piece) late in the game. This strategy is more complex than others to play in Backgammon because it needs careful movement of your checkers and how the pieces are relocated is partly the outcome of the dice roll.
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