The Essential Basics of Backgammon Strategies – Part Two
As we have dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a game of ability and pure luck. The aim is to move your pieces safely around the board to your home board while at the same time your opponent shifts their checkers toward their inner board in the opposing direction. With opposing player checkers heading in opposing directions there is going to be conflict and the need for specific strategies at particular instances. Here are the last two Backgammon strategies to complete your game.
The Priming Game Plan
If the purpose of the blocking strategy is to hamper the opponents ability to move his chips, the Priming Game strategy is to completely block any movement of the opposing player by constructing a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s pieces will either get hit, or end up in a damaged position if she ever tries to leave the wall. The ambush of the prime can be built anywhere between point 2 and point eleven in your game board. After you’ve successfully constructed the prime to block the activity of your competitor, your competitor does not even get a chance to toss the dice, that means you move your pieces and toss the dice again. You’ll be a winner for sure.
The Back Game Technique
The objectives of the Back Game strategy and the Blocking Game technique are similar – to harm your competitor’s positions with hope to boost your odds of winning, but the Back Game plan uses seperate tactics to do that. The Back Game strategy is generally employed when you’re far behind your competitor. To participate in Backgammon with this technique, you need to hold 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single checker) late in the game. This plan is more challenging than others to use in Backgammon because it needs careful movement of your pieces and how the chips are relocated is partly the result of the dice toss.