The Essential Details of Backgammon Tactics – Part Two
As we dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a casino game of skill and luck. The aim is to move your pieces carefully around the game board to your home board and at the same time your opponent moves their pieces toward their home board in the opposite direction. With competing player pieces moving in opposing directions there is going to be conflict and the requirement for specific strategies at particular instances. Here are the two final Backgammon strategies to complete your game.
The Priming Game Plan
If the aim of the blocking tactic is to slow down the opponent to shift her pieces, the Priming Game tactic is to completely block any activity of the opponent by constructing a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s pieces will either get hit, or end up in a battered position if he/she ever tries to leave the wall. The trap of the prime can be built anywhere between point 2 and point 11 in your half of the board. After you’ve successfully assembled the prime to stop the movement of the competitor, your opponent doesn’t even get to roll the dice, that means you shift your chips and toss the dice yet again. You’ll be a winner for sure.
The Back Game Tactic
The aims of the Back Game tactic and the Blocking Game tactic are very similar – to hurt your competitor’s positions in hope to improve your chances of winning, but the Back Game strategy uses alternate tactics to achieve that. The Back Game technique is commonly used when you’re far behind your opponent. To participate in Backgammon with this tactic, you have to hold 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single piece) late in the game. This plan is more challenging than others to employ in Backgammon because it needs careful movement of your chips and how the chips are moved is partly the result of the dice roll.