The Essential Basics of Backgammon Tactics – Part Two
As we dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a game of ability and luck. The aim is to shift your chips carefully around the game board to your home board while at the same time your opposition moves their chips toward their inside board in the opposite direction. With opposing player chips heading in opposing directions there is going to be conflict and the requirement for specific tactics at specific instances. Here are the 2 final Backgammon techniques to finish off your game.
The Priming Game Tactic
If the purpose of the blocking strategy is to hamper the opponents ability to shift her chips, the Priming Game plan is to absolutely stop any movement of the opponent by creating a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s pieces will either get bumped, or result a bad position if he at all attempts to escape the wall. The ambush of the prime can be built anywhere between point 2 and point 11 in your game board. As soon as you have successfully assembled the prime to block the movement of the competitor, the opponent doesn’t even get a chance to toss the dice, that means you shift your pieces and toss the dice again. You will be a winner for sure.
The Back Game Tactic
The objectives of the Back Game strategy and the Blocking Game plan are similar – to harm your competitor’s positions hoping to boost your odds of succeeding, but the Back Game strategy relies on alternate techniques to do that. The Back Game strategy is commonly employed when you are far behind your opponent. To participate in Backgammon with this plan, you have to hold two or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single checker) late in the game. This tactic is more difficult than others to play in Backgammon because it requires careful movement of your pieces and how the chips are relocated is partially the outcome of the dice roll.