The Essential Facts of Backgammon Tactics – Part 2
by Karla on Thursday, November 19th, 2020
As we have dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a game of ability and pure luck. The goal is to move your chips safely around the board to your inner board and at the same time your opponent shifts their pieces toward their inside board in the opposite direction. With competing player pieces shifting in opposing directions there is going to be conflict and the need for specific strategies at specific times. Here are the last two Backgammon strategies to round out your game.
The Priming Game Plan
If the purpose of the blocking strategy is to slow down the opponent to shift their checkers, 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 opponent’s checkers will either get hit, or result a bad position if he at all attempts to leave the wall. The ambush of the prime can be established anyplace between point two and point eleven in your half of the board. Once you have successfully assembled the prime to block the movement of your competitor, the competitor does not even get a chance to roll the dice, that means you move your chips and toss the dice yet again. You will win the game for sure.
The Back Game Strategy
The objectives of the Back Game plan and the Blocking Game technique are very similar – to hinder your competitor’s positions hoping to better your odds of succeeding, but the Back Game plan uses seperate techniques to achieve that. The Back Game tactic is frequently utilized when you’re far behind your competitor. To compete in Backgammon with this strategy, you need to control two or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single checker) late in the game. This strategy is more challenging than others to play in Backgammon because it requires careful movement of your pieces and how the pieces are relocated is partly the result of the dice roll.
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