Posted by Nadia | Posted in Backgammon | Posted on 23-08-2019
As we dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a casino game of skill and pure luck. The aim is to move your chips carefully around the board to your inner board while at the same time your opposing player moves their chips toward their inside board in the opposing direction. With opposing player checkers moving in opposite directions there is going to be conflict and the requirement for particular strategies at specific instances. Here are the two final Backgammon tactics to finish off your game.
The Priming Game Plan
If the aim of the blocking strategy is to hamper the opponents ability to shift his chips, the Priming Game strategy is to completely stop any activity of the opposing player by constructing a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s pieces will either get hit, or end up in a damaged position if he ever tries to escape the wall. The ambush of the prime can be established anyplace between point 2 and point eleven in your half of the board. After you’ve successfully constructed the prime to stop the activity of the opponent, your opponent doesn’t even get to toss the dice, that means you shift your pieces and roll the dice again. You’ll win the game for sure.
The Back Game Plan
The aims of the Back Game plan and the Blocking Game technique are very similar – to harm your competitor’s positions with hope to improve your chances of winning, but the Back Game plan uses alternate tactics to do that. The Back Game tactic is commonly employed when you are far behind your opponent. To compete in Backgammon with this technique, you have to hold 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This strategy is more difficult than others to employ in Backgammon because it requires careful movement of your chips and how the checkers are moved is partially the result of the dice roll.