The Essential Details of Backgammon Strategies – Part Two
As we dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a casino game of skill and luck. The aim is to shift your chips safely around the board to your inside board while at the same time your opposition shifts their checkers toward their inside board in the opposite direction. With competing player pieces moving in opposite directions there is going to be conflict and the need for specific tactics at particular times. Here are the last 2 Backgammon tactics to finish off your game.
The Priming Game Strategy
If the purpose of the blocking tactic is to slow down the opponent to shift his chips, the Priming Game strategy is to absolutely stop any activity of the opposing player by assembling a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s pieces will either get hit, or end up in a bad position if he/she ever tries to escape the wall. The ambush of the prime can be built anywhere between point two and point eleven in your half of the board. As soon as you have successfully constructed the prime to block the activity of the opponent, your competitor doesn’t even get to roll the dice, and you shift your pieces and toss the dice yet again. You will win the game for sure.
The Back Game Strategy
The objectives of the Back Game plan and the Blocking Game strategy are very similar – to harm your opponent’s positions hoping to improve your odds of winning, but the Back Game technique utilizes alternate tactics to achieve that. The Back Game tactic is frequently employed when you are far behind your competitor. To compete in Backgammon with this technique, you have to hold 2 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 employ in Backgammon because it requires careful movement of your checkers and how the checkers are moved is partly the outcome of the dice toss.