The Essential Basics of Backgammon Tactics – Part Two
As we dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a game of skill and luck. The goal is to move your pieces safely around the board to your inside board while at the same time your opposition moves their chips toward their inside board in the opposing direction. With competing player checkers shifting in opposite directions there is bound to be conflict and the requirement for particular tactics at particular times. Here are the 2 final Backgammon strategies to round out your game.
The Priming Game Tactic
If the aim of the blocking tactic is to slow down the opponent to move his checkers, the Priming Game plan is to completely block any activity of the opposing player 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 he ever tries to escape the wall. The ambush of the prime can be established anywhere between point two and point 11 in your game board. As soon as you have successfully assembled the prime to prevent the movement of your competitor, the competitor doesn’t even get to roll the dice, and you move your chips and toss the dice again. You will be a winner for sure.
The Back Game Strategy
The aims of the Back Game technique and the Blocking Game technique are similar – to hinder your competitor’s positions in hope to better your odds of succeeding, but the Back Game tactic uses alternate tactics to achieve that. The Back Game technique is frequently employed when you are far behind your opponent. To compete in Backgammon with this strategy, you have to control 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This technique is more difficult than others to employ in Backgammon seeing as it needs careful movement of your chips and how the chips are moved is partially the outcome of the dice toss.