Posted by Nadia | Posted in Backgammon | Posted on 20-07-2020
As we have dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a game of ability and pure luck. The goal is to shift your checkers carefully around the board to your home board and at the same time your opponent moves their chips toward their home board in the opposing direction. With competing player checkers shifting in opposing directions there is bound to be conflict and the need for particular tactics at specific times. Here are the last 2 Backgammon strategies to finish off your game.
The Priming Game Tactic
If the aim of the blocking tactic is to hamper the opponents ability to shift their checkers, the Priming Game plan is to completely block any movement of the opponent by assembling a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s chips will either get bumped, or result a damaged position if she ever attempts to escape the wall. The trap of the prime can be built anyplace between point 2 and point eleven in your half of the board. After you have successfully built the prime to stop the movement of your competitor, your opponent doesn’t even get to roll the dice, that means you shift your chips and roll the dice yet again. You will win the game for sure.
The Back Game Tactic
The objectives of the Back Game strategy and the Blocking Game plan are very similar – to harm your competitor’s positions with hope to better your odds of succeeding, but the Back Game tactic relies on different techniques to do that. The Back Game tactic is often employed when you are far behind your opponent. To participate in Backgammon with this strategy, you need to hold two or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This tactic is more complex than others to use in Backgammon because it requires careful movement of your chips and how the chips are relocated is partly the result of the dice roll.