The Essential Details of Backgammon Tactics – Part 2
As we dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a casino game of talent and luck. The goal is to move your chips carefully around the game board to your home board while at the same time your opposition shifts their chips toward their home board in the opposite direction. With opposing player chips shifting in opposing directions there is going to be conflict and the need for specific strategies at particular instances. Here are the last two Backgammon tactics to complete your game.
The Priming Game Tactic
If the goal of the blocking tactic is to slow down the opponent to shift her chips, the Priming Game plan is to completely block any activity of the opponent by building a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s pieces will either get bumped, or end up in a damaged position if he/she ever attempts to leave the wall. The ambush of the prime can be established anyplace between point two and point 11 in your half of the board. After you’ve successfully built the prime to block the activity of your competitor, your competitor does not even get a chance to roll the dice, that means you move your chips and roll the dice yet again. You will win the game for sure.
The Back Game Tactic
The goals of the Back Game strategy and the Blocking Game plan are very similar – to hurt your opponent’s positions hoping to better your chances of succeeding, but the Back Game technique relies on seperate techniques to achieve that. The Back Game tactic is generally employed when you are far behind your opponent. To compete in Backgammon with this tactic, you have to hold two or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This plan is more challenging than others to employ in Backgammon because it requires careful movement of your checkers and how the checkers are moved is partially the outcome of the dice roll.