Posted by Nadia | Posted in Backgammon | Posted on 03-02-2018
As we dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a game of talent and good luck. The goal is to move your checkers carefully around the board to your inside board while at the same time your opposing player shifts their chips toward their inner board in the opposing direction. With competing player chips shifting in opposing directions there is going to be conflict and the need for specific techniques at particular times. Here are the last two Backgammon tactics to finish off your game.
The Priming Game Tactic
If the purpose of the blocking plan is to slow down the opponent to move her checkers, the Priming Game strategy is to completely stop any movement of the opponent by building a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s chips will either get hit, or result a damaged position if he/she ever attempts to leave the wall. The ambush of the prime can be setup anyplace between point 2 and point 11 in your half of the board. As soon as you have successfully built the prime to stop the activity of the competitor, your opponent doesn’t even get a chance to toss the dice, and you shift your checkers and toss the dice again. You will be a winner for sure.
The Back Game Technique
The goals of the Back Game tactic and the Blocking Game tactic are similar – to hurt your competitor’s positions in hope to boost your odds of succeeding, but the Back Game strategy relies on seperate techniques to achieve that. The Back Game plan is commonly utilized when you are 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 strategy is more complex than others to employ in Backgammon because it needs careful movement of your checkers and how the pieces are moved is partly the result of the dice roll.