The Essential Basics of Backgammon Strategies – Part Two
As we dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a casino game of talent and pure luck. The goal is to move your chips carefully around the game board to your inside board while at the same time your opposition moves their checkers toward their inner board in the opposing direction. With competing player chips shifting in opposite directions there is going to be conflict and the requirement for specific strategies at particular instances. Here are the last two Backgammon strategies to finish off your game.
The Priming Game Tactic
If the goal of the blocking strategy is to slow down the opponent to move their checkers, the Priming Game tactic is to completely block any activity of the opponent by assembling a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s pieces will either get bumped, or end up in a bad position if he at all attempts to escape the wall. The ambush of the prime can be established anywhere between point 2 and point 11 in your board. After you have successfully built the prime to stop the activity of the competitor, your competitor doesn’t even get a chance to roll the dice, that means you shift your pieces and roll the dice yet again. You’ll be a winner for sure.
The Back Game Strategy
The aims of the Back Game technique and the Blocking Game tactic are similar – to hurt your opponent’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 often employed when you’re far behind your competitor. To play Backgammon with this plan, you need to control two or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single checker) late in the game. This strategy is more complex than others to use in Backgammon seeing as it needs careful movement of your checkers and how the checkers are moved is partially the outcome of the dice toss.