The Essential Details of Backgammon Strategies – Part 2
As we have dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a game of talent and good luck. The goal is to shift your pieces carefully around the game board to your inside board while at the same time your opposition shifts their checkers toward their home board in the opposing direction. With opposing player checkers heading in opposing directions there is going to be conflict and the need for specific tactics at specific times. Here are the 2 final Backgammon strategies to round out your game.
The Priming Game Strategy
If the goal of the blocking tactic is to hamper the opponents ability to shift their checkers, the Priming Game plan is to absolutely barricade any movement of the opponent by constructing a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s chips will either get bumped, or end up in a bad position if she at all tries to escape the wall. The ambush of the prime can be setup anyplace between point two and point 11 in your game board. As soon as you’ve successfully built the prime to prevent the movement of your competitor, the competitor doesn’t even get a chance to roll the dice, and you shift your checkers and toss the dice again. You will win the game for sure.
The Back Game Tactic
The goals of the Back Game strategy and the Blocking Game technique are very similar – to harm your opponent’s positions in hope to better your odds of winning, however the Back Game technique uses seperate techniques to achieve that. The Back Game technique is commonly used when you are far behind your opponent. To compete in Backgammon with this strategy, you have to control two or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This strategy is more complex than others to use in Backgammon seeing as it requires careful movement of your chips and how the pieces are relocated is partly the outcome of the dice toss.