The Essential Details of Backgammon Tactics – Part Two
Friday, 4. October 2024
As we have dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a game of skill and luck. The goal is to shift your chips safely around the game board to your inside board while at the same time your opposition moves their chips toward their inside board in the opposite direction. With competing player pieces shifting in opposing directions there is going to be conflict and the need for particular strategies at particular instances. Here are the last two Backgammon strategies to round out your game.
The Priming Game Plan
If the purpose of the blocking plan is to slow down the opponent to shift their chips, the Priming Game plan is to completely barricade any movement of the opposing player by assembling a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s chips will either get hit, or end up in a bad position if she at all tries to escape the wall. The ambush of the prime can be setup anywhere between point two and point 11 in your board. After you’ve successfully assembled the prime to block the activity of the competitor, your opponent doesn’t even get to toss the dice, and you shift your chips and roll the dice again. You will be a winner for sure.
The Back Game Plan
The goals of the Back Game technique and the Blocking Game strategy are similar – to harm your opponent’s positions with hope to boost your chances of winning, but the Back Game technique uses alternate tactics to do that. The Back Game strategy is commonly utilized when you are far behind your competitor. To compete in Backgammon with this tactic, you have to hold two or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single piece) late in the game. This technique is more challenging than others to use in Backgammon because it needs careful movement of your checkers and how the chips are relocated is partially the outcome of the dice roll.
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