Posted by Nadia | Posted in Backgammon | Posted on 15-06-2020
As we dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a casino game of ability and luck. The goal is to shift your chips carefully around the game board to your home board while at the same time your opposition shifts their chips toward their inner board in the opposing direction. With opposing player chips shifting in opposing directions there is bound to be conflict and the requirement for specific strategies at specific instances. Here are the two final Backgammon techniques to round out your game.
The Priming Game Plan
If the goal of the blocking plan is to hamper the opponents ability to shift her pieces, the Priming Game plan is to completely block any activity of the opponent by constructing 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 ever tries to escape the wall. The trap of the prime can be setup anywhere between point two and point 11 in your half of the board. After you have successfully constructed the prime to stop the movement of the competitor, your opponent doesn’t even get to toss the dice, that means you shift your pieces and roll the dice yet again. You’ll be a winner for sure.
The Back Game Strategy
The objectives of the Back Game strategy and the Blocking Game plan are very similar – to hurt your opponent’s positions in hope to improve your chances of winning, but the Back Game tactic uses seperate techniques to do that. The Back Game plan is often utilized when you’re far behind your competitor. To participate in Backgammon with this technique, you have to control two or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single piece) late in the game. This plan is more difficult than others to employ in Backgammon seeing as it needs careful movement of your pieces and how the chips are relocated is partially the result of the dice toss.