Posted by Nadia | Posted in Backgammon | Posted on 26-09-2017
As we dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a game of talent and pure luck. The aim is to move your pieces safely around the board to your inner board and at the same time your opposition moves their chips toward their home board in the opposing direction. With competing player checkers heading in opposing directions there is going to be conflict and the need for specific tactics at specific instances. Here are the last 2 Backgammon tactics to complete your game.
The Priming Game Plan
If the aim of the blocking strategy is to hamper the opponents ability to move her chips, the Priming Game strategy is to completely barricade any movement of the opponent by assembling a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s checkers will either get bumped, or end up in a battered position if he/she at all tries to leave the wall. The ambush of the prime can be built anywhere between point 2 and point 11 in your half of the board. Once you have successfully assembled the prime to block the activity of the competitor, your opponent does not even get to roll the dice, and you shift your pieces and toss the dice yet again. You will be a winner for sure.
The Back Game Tactic
The aims of the Back Game technique and the Blocking Game technique are similar – to harm your opponent’s positions with hope to better your odds of succeeding, but the Back Game strategy uses alternate techniques to do that. The Back Game strategy is frequently used when you’re far behind your opponent. To play Backgammon with this tactic, you have to hold 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This plan is more challenging than others to employ in Backgammon because it requires careful movement of your checkers and how the chips are moved is partly the result of the dice toss.