The Basics of Backgammon Strategies – Part Two
Thursday, 24. November 2022
As we dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a casino game of skill and pure luck. The goal is to move your chips safely around the game board to your inner board while at the same time your opponent shifts their pieces toward their home board in the opposite direction. With opposing player chips shifting in opposing directions there is bound to be conflict and the requirement for particular techniques at specific times. Here are the two final Backgammon tactics to complete your game.
The Priming Game Strategy
If the goal of the blocking tactic is to slow down the opponent to shift his checkers, the Priming Game tactic is to completely stop any activity of the opponent by assembling a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s pieces will either get bumped, or result a bad position if he/she at all attempts to leave the wall. The ambush of the prime can be established anyplace between point 2 and point eleven in your game board. After you have successfully assembled the prime to prevent the movement of your competitor, the opponent does not even get a chance to toss the dice, and you move your pieces and roll the dice again. You’ll be a winner for sure.
The Back Game Tactic
The aims of the Back Game strategy and the Blocking Game plan are very similar – to hurt your opponent’s positions hoping to improve your odds of winning, however the Back Game tactic utilizes different tactics to achieve that. The Back Game plan is commonly utilized when you are far behind your competitor. To participate in Backgammon with this strategy, you have to control two or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single checker) late in the game. This strategy is more complex than others to use in Backgammon seeing as it needs careful movement of your chips and how the pieces are relocated is partly the result of the dice toss.
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