Posted by Nadia | Posted in Backgammon | Posted on 18-12-2017
As we have dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a game of ability and luck. The goal is to shift your chips safely around the board to your inside board while at the same time your opposing player moves their pieces toward their inner board in the opposite direction. With opposing player chips moving in opposing directions there is going to be conflict and the requirement for particular strategies at particular instances. Here are the last two Backgammon strategies to round out your game.
The Priming Game Strategy
If the goal of the blocking plan is to slow down the opponent to move her pieces, the Priming Game strategy is to completely stop any movement of the opposing player by creating a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s chips will either get bumped, or end up in a damaged position if she ever tries to escape the wall. The trap of the prime can be built anywhere between point two and point 11 in your board. Once you’ve successfully built the prime to block the activity of your opponent, the opponent does not even get to roll the dice, that means you move your chips and roll the dice again. You’ll be a winner for sure.
The Back Game Plan
The aims of the Back Game plan and the Blocking Game strategy are similar – to hurt your competitor’s positions in hope to improve your odds of winning, however the Back Game plan uses different tactics to achieve that. The Back Game plan is frequently utilized when you’re far behind your competitor. To participate in Backgammon with this tactic, you have to control 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This plan is more challenging than others to use in Backgammon seeing as it requires careful movement of your chips and how the chips are moved is partly the result of the dice roll.