Posted by Nadia | Posted in Backgammon | Posted on 05-02-2021
As we dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a game of ability and luck. The aim is to move your pieces safely around the game board to your inner board while at the same time your opposition shifts their pieces toward their inside board in the opposing direction. With competing player checkers heading in opposing directions there is going to be conflict and the requirement for particular techniques at specific times. Here are the last two Backgammon strategies to round out your game.
The Priming Game Strategy
If the purpose of the blocking plan is to slow down the opponent to move his chips, the Priming Game plan is to completely barricade any activity of the opposing player by assembling a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s pieces will either get hit, or end up in a damaged position if he at all tries to escape the wall. The ambush of the prime can be setup anywhere between point 2 and point 11 in your board. As soon as you have successfully built the prime to block the activity of your competitor, the competitor doesn’t even get to toss the dice, that means you shift your pieces and toss the dice again. You’ll be a winner for sure.
The Back Game Plan
The objectives of the Back Game technique and the Blocking Game strategy are very similar – to hurt your opponent’s positions with hope to better your odds of winning, but the Back Game plan utilizes seperate tactics to achieve that. The Back Game tactic is frequently used when you are far behind your competitor. To participate in Backgammon with this technique, you have to hold 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single checker) late in the game. This tactic is more challenging than others to use in Backgammon seeing as it requires careful movement of your pieces and how the pieces are relocated is partly the result of the dice toss.