The Essential Details of Backgammon Strategies – Part 2
As we dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a game of talent and pure luck. The aim is to shift your pieces safely around the board to your inner board while at the same time your opposition shifts their checkers toward their inner board in the opposite direction. With competing player chips moving in opposite directions there is going to be conflict and the requirement for particular strategies at specific times. Here are the last 2 Backgammon strategies to complete your game.
The Priming Game Strategy
If the purpose of the blocking plan is to slow down the opponent to shift their chips, the Priming Game tactic is to completely block any movement of the opposing player by creating a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s pieces will either get bumped, or result a battered position if he/she ever tries to escape the wall. The trap of the prime can be established anyplace between point two and point eleven in your half of the board. As soon as you have successfully assembled the prime to stop the activity of the opponent, the opponent does not even get to roll the dice, and you shift your pieces and roll the dice again. You will be a winner for sure.
The Back Game Plan
The aims of the Back Game strategy and the Blocking Game tactic are similar – to hinder your competitor’s positions in hope to better your odds of winning, but the Back Game strategy utilizes seperate tactics to do that. The Back Game plan is commonly used when you are far behind your opponent. To play Backgammon with this plan, you have to control two or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This tactic is more challenging than others to play in Backgammon because it requires careful movement of your checkers and how the pieces are moved is partially the outcome of the dice roll.