The Basics of Backgammon Strategies – Part 2
As we dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a game of skill and luck. The goal is to move your chips safely around the game board to your home board and at the same time your opponent moves their chips toward their inner board in the opposing direction. With competing player chips shifting in opposing directions there is bound to be conflict and the need for particular techniques at specific times. Here are the 2 final Backgammon tactics to complete your game.
The Priming Game Strategy
If the aim of the blocking strategy is to hamper the opponents ability to move his chips, the Priming Game strategy is to absolutely stop any activity of the opponent by creating a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s pieces will either get bumped, or end up in a bad position if she ever attempts to escape the wall. The trap of the prime can be built anyplace between point 2 and point eleven in your half of the board. After you’ve successfully constructed the prime to block the activity of the opponent, your opponent doesn’t even get a chance to toss the dice, that means you shift your chips and roll the dice yet again. You will be a winner for sure.
The Back Game Plan
The goals of the Back Game tactic and the Blocking Game tactic are very similar – to harm your opponent’s positions hoping to improve your odds of winning, but the Back Game technique uses different techniques to achieve that. The Back Game tactic is often used when you’re far behind your opponent. To participate in Backgammon with this strategy, you need to hold 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single piece) late in the game. This tactic is more challenging than others to play in Backgammon seeing as it requires careful movement of your chips and how the pieces are relocated is partially the outcome of the dice roll.