The Essential Basics of Backgammon Strategies – Part Two
As we dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a game of talent and good luck. The goal is to shift your chips carefully around the board to your inside board while at the same time your opposing player shifts their chips toward their inner board in the opposing direction. With competing player chips shifting in opposing directions there is going to be conflict and the requirement for specific strategies at particular times. Here are the 2 final Backgammon techniques to finish off your game.
The Priming Game Plan
If the goal of the blocking plan is to hamper the opponents ability to shift their pieces, the Priming Game strategy is to completely stop any activity of the opposing player by building a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s pieces will either get hit, or end up in a bad position if she at all attempts to escape the wall. The ambush of the prime can be setup anyplace between point two and point 11 in your game board. As soon as you’ve successfully built the prime to prevent the movement of your competitor, the competitor does not even get a chance to roll the dice, and you move your pieces and toss the dice yet again. You will be a winner for sure.
The Back Game Technique
The objectives of the Back Game tactic and the Blocking Game strategy are very similar – to hurt your opponent’s positions in hope to better your chances of succeeding, but the Back Game plan relies on alternate tactics to do that. The Back Game plan is generally utilized when you’re far behind your opponent. To play Backgammon with this strategy, you have to hold 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single piece) late in the game. This tactic is more complex than others to play in Backgammon seeing as it needs careful movement of your chips and how the checkers are relocated is partly the result of the dice roll.