Posted by Nadia | Posted in Backgammon | Posted on 31-01-2016
As we dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a game of ability and good luck. The aim is to move your chips carefully around the board to your inner board and at the same time your opposing player shifts their pieces toward their inner board in the opposing direction. With opposing player chips moving in opposing directions there is bound to be conflict and the requirement for particular techniques at specific times. Here are the two final Backgammon strategies to round out your game.
The Priming Game Plan
If the purpose of the blocking strategy is to slow down the opponent to shift his chips, the Priming Game tactic is to absolutely barricade any movement of the opposing player by constructing a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s checkers will either get hit, or result a damaged position if he/she ever attempts to leave the wall. The ambush of the prime can be established anyplace between point two and point eleven in your half of the board. As soon as you have successfully built the prime to prevent the activity of the opponent, the opponent doesn’t even get to roll the dice, that means you move your chips and toss the dice yet again. You will be a winner for sure.
The Back Game Plan
The aims of the Back Game strategy and the Blocking Game technique are similar – to hinder your opponent’s positions with hope to better your odds of succeeding, but the Back Game plan utilizes seperate tactics to do that. The Back Game technique is often used when you are far behind your competitor. To play Backgammon with this technique, you have to control 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single checker) late in the game. This technique is more difficult than others to play in Backgammon seeing as it needs careful movement of your chips and how the pieces are moved is partly the result of the dice toss.