Posted by Nadia | Posted in Backgammon | Posted on 16-03-2016
As we dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a casino game of ability and pure luck. The goal is to move your checkers safely around the game board to your inside board while at the same time your opponent shifts their chips toward their inner board in the opposing direction. With competing player pieces heading in opposing directions there is bound to be conflict and the requirement for particular tactics at particular times. Here are the last 2 Backgammon plans to finish off your game.
The Priming Game Tactic
If the aim of the blocking tactic is to slow down the opponent to shift their pieces, the Priming Game tactic is to absolutely block any activity of the opposing player by building a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s chips will either get hit, or result a bad position if he/she at all attempts to leave the wall. The trap of the prime can be established anyplace between point 2 and point eleven in your game board. As soon as you’ve successfully built the prime to stop the activity of the opponent, the opponent does not even get to toss the dice, that means you shift your chips and roll the dice again. You will win the game for sure.
The Back Game Strategy
The aims of the Back Game strategy and the Blocking Game tactic are similar – to hurt your competitor’s positions hoping to better your odds of succeeding, but the Back Game tactic relies on different techniques to do that. The Back Game technique is commonly used when you’re far behind your competitor. To play Backgammon with this plan, you have to control 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single piece) late in the game. This plan is more difficult than others to use in Backgammon because it needs careful movement of your checkers and how the pieces are moved is partly the result of the dice roll.