Posted by Nadia | Posted in Backgammon | Posted on 23-02-2018
As we have dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a casino game of ability and pure luck. The goal is to move your checkers carefully around the board to your home board and at the same time your opposing player shifts their chips toward their inside board in the opposite direction. With competing player chips shifting in opposite directions there is going to be conflict and the requirement for specific techniques at particular instances. Here are the two final Backgammon plans to complete your game.
The Priming Game Plan
If the aim of the blocking strategy is to hamper the opponents ability to shift her checkers, the Priming Game plan is to completely block any activity of the opponent by creating a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s checkers will either get bumped, or end up in a damaged position if he/she ever attempts to escape the wall. The ambush of the prime can be setup anyplace between point two and point eleven in your board. Once you have successfully assembled the prime to block the activity of your opponent, your opponent does not even get a chance to toss the dice, that means you move your checkers and toss the dice again. You will win the game for sure.
The Back Game Tactic
The goals of the Back Game plan and the Blocking Game technique are similar – to hurt your competitor’s positions hoping to improve your chances of succeeding, however the Back Game tactic utilizes seperate tactics to achieve that. The Back Game technique is commonly used when you are far behind your opponent. To participate in Backgammon with this plan, you need to hold 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single piece) late in the game. This plan is more complex than others to play in Backgammon because it needs careful movement of your pieces and how the checkers are relocated is partly the outcome of the dice toss.