Posted by Nadia | Posted in Backgammon | Posted on 09-09-2022
As we dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a game of skill and pure luck. The aim is to move your pieces carefully around the game board to your inner board and at the same time your opposition shifts their chips toward their home board in the opposing direction. With opposing player pieces moving in opposite directions there is going to be conflict and the need for specific strategies at specific times. Here are the two final Backgammon strategies to round out your game.
The Priming Game Tactic
If the aim of the blocking strategy is to hamper the opponents ability to shift his pieces, the Priming Game strategy is to completely stop any movement of the opponent by assembling a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s checkers will either get bumped, or result a damaged position if he at all attempts to leave the wall. The ambush of the prime can be built anyplace between point 2 and point 11 in your board. Once you have successfully assembled the prime to block the movement of the opponent, your opponent doesn’t even get a chance to toss the dice, that means you shift your checkers and roll the dice again. You’ll win the game for sure.
The Back Game Tactic
The objectives of the Back Game plan and the Blocking Game strategy are similar – to hinder your competitor’s positions with hope to better your odds of winning, but the Back Game tactic relies on different techniques to do that. The Back Game tactic is generally used when you’re far behind your competitor. To play Backgammon with this plan, you need to control 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single checker) late in the game. This strategy is more challenging than others to use in Backgammon because it needs careful movement of your checkers and how the checkers are relocated is partially the result of the dice roll.