Posted by Nadia | Posted in Backgammon | Posted on 22-08-2022
As we have dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a casino game of ability and luck. The aim is to shift your chips carefully around the board to your inside board and at the same time your opposition shifts their checkers toward their inside board in the opposite direction. With competing player pieces heading in opposing directions there is bound to be conflict and the requirement for specific techniques at specific times. Here are the last 2 Backgammon tactics to round out your game.
The Priming Game Strategy
If the aim of the blocking tactic is to hamper the opponents ability to shift his chips, the Priming Game plan is to absolutely block any activity of the opponent by creating a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s chips will either get bumped, or end up in a damaged position if he ever tries to escape the wall. The trap of the prime can be established anywhere between point two and point eleven in your half of the board. After you’ve successfully constructed the prime to prevent the movement of your competitor, your competitor doesn’t even get a chance to toss the dice, that means you shift your chips and roll the dice again. You will win the game for sure.
The Back Game Tactic
The aims of the Back Game tactic and the Blocking Game tactic are very similar – to harm your competitor’s positions with hope to improve your chances of succeeding, however the Back Game strategy utilizes different tactics to do that. The Back Game plan is commonly utilized when you’re far behind your opponent. To play Backgammon with this strategy, 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 challenging than others to use in Backgammon because it requires careful movement of your checkers and how the chips are relocated is partly the result of the dice roll.