The Basics of Backgammon Tactics – Part 2
by Karla on Monday, March 29th, 2021
As we have dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a game of skill and pure luck. The aim is to move your chips safely around the game board to your inside board while at the same time your opposing player moves their checkers toward their inner board in the opposite direction. With competing player pieces heading in opposing directions there is bound to be conflict and the need for specific techniques at specific times. Here are the 2 final Backgammon plans to round out your game.
The Priming Game Strategy
If the goal of the blocking tactic is to slow down the opponent to shift her chips, the Priming Game tactic is to completely stop any movement of the opposing player by constructing a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s checkers will either get bumped, or end up in a bad position if he ever attempts to escape the wall. The ambush of the prime can be established anyplace between point 2 and point 11 in your board. After you’ve successfully assembled the prime to stop the movement of your competitor, the competitor doesn’t even get a chance to toss the dice, that means you shift your pieces and toss the dice yet again. You will win the game for sure.
The Back Game Tactic
The goals of the Back Game plan and the Blocking Game strategy are similar – to harm your competitor’s positions with hope to boost your odds of succeeding, but the Back Game strategy relies on alternate techniques to do that. The Back Game plan is generally employed when you’re far behind your competitor. To play Backgammon with this strategy, you have to control 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This plan is more challenging than others to play in Backgammon because it needs careful movement of your pieces and how the chips are moved is partially the outcome of the dice roll.
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