The Essential Basics of Backgammon Tactics – Part 2
As we dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a game of ability and good luck. The goal is to shift your pieces safely around the board to your home board and at the same time your opposing player moves their chips toward their inner board in the opposing direction. With opposing player pieces heading in opposite directions there is going to be conflict and the requirement for particular techniques at specific instances. Here are the last 2 Backgammon techniques to round out your game.
The Priming Game Plan
If the purpose of the blocking strategy is to hamper the opponents ability to shift his chips, the Priming Game plan is to completely barricade any activity of the opposing player by creating a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s pieces will either get hit, or result a damaged position if he/she ever attempts to leave the wall. The trap of the prime can be setup anyplace between point 2 and point eleven in your half of the board. Once you have successfully constructed the prime to prevent the movement of the competitor, your opponent doesn’t even get to roll the dice, and you shift your pieces and roll the dice yet again. You’ll be a winner for sure.
The Back Game Tactic
The goals of the Back Game tactic and the Blocking Game technique are very similar – to harm your competitor’s positions hoping to boost your chances of succeeding, however the Back Game technique utilizes alternate techniques to achieve that. The Back Game strategy is often used when you’re far behind your competitor. To play Backgammon with this strategy, you have to hold 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This strategy is more challenging than others to use in Backgammon because it needs careful movement of your pieces and how the pieces are relocated is partially the result of the dice toss.