The Essential Basics of Backgammon Strategies – Part 2
by Karla on Tuesday, May 12th, 2020
As we have dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a game of talent and pure luck. The goal is to shift your checkers carefully around the game board to your inside board and at the same time your opposition moves their checkers toward their inside board in the opposite direction. With competing player pieces heading in opposing directions there is bound to be conflict and the need for particular strategies at particular times. Here are the 2 final Backgammon tactics to finish off your game.
The Priming Game Strategy
If the purpose of the blocking plan is to slow down the opponent to shift their pieces, the Priming Game strategy is to absolutely stop any activity of the opponent by constructing a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s pieces will either get bumped, or result a battered position if he at all tries to escape the wall. The ambush of the prime can be built anywhere between point 2 and point eleven in your game board. After you have successfully built the prime to prevent the movement of the competitor, the opponent doesn’t even get to roll the dice, and you shift your chips and roll the dice again. You will win the game for sure.
The Back Game Strategy
The objectives of the Back Game plan and the Blocking Game tactic are similar – to hurt your competitor’s positions in hope to boost your chances of succeeding, however the Back Game plan uses seperate tactics to do that. The Back Game strategy is commonly employed when you are far behind your opponent. To participate in Backgammon with this strategy, you need to hold 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single piece) late in the game. This tactic is more difficult than others to use in Backgammon because it requires careful movement of your chips and how the chips are relocated is partly the result of the dice roll.
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