Posted by Nadia | Posted in Backgammon | Posted on 31-03-2016
As we dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a game of skill and luck. The aim is to shift your chips safely around the game board to your home board while at the same time your opposition shifts their pieces toward their inside board in the opposite direction. With opposing player pieces moving in opposite directions there is bound to be conflict and the requirement for particular strategies at particular times. Here are the last 2 Backgammon strategies to finish off your game.
The Priming Game Tactic
If the purpose of the blocking strategy is to hamper the opponents ability to shift her pieces, the Priming Game tactic is to absolutely stop any movement of the opponent by constructing a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s checkers will either get hit, or result a battered position if she at all attempts to escape the wall. The trap of the prime can be established anyplace between point two and point 11 in your board. Once you’ve successfully built the prime to prevent the movement of the competitor, the competitor does not even get a chance to toss the dice, that means you shift your chips and toss the dice yet again. You’ll be a winner for sure.
The Back Game Strategy
The objectives of the Back Game plan and the Blocking Game plan are similar – to hurt your opponent’s positions with hope to improve your odds of winning, but the Back Game plan uses seperate tactics to do that. The Back Game technique is commonly utilized when you are far behind your competitor. To play Backgammon with this tactic, you have to hold 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single checker) late in the game. This tactic is more complex than others to employ in Backgammon because it requires careful movement of your checkers and how the pieces are moved is partly the outcome of the dice toss.