The Essential Facts of Backgammon Strategies – Part Two
Thursday, 21. November 2024
As we dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a casino game of ability and luck. The goal is to move your pieces carefully around the board to your inside board while at the same time your opposition shifts their chips toward their inside board in the opposing direction. With competing player checkers shifting in opposite directions there is bound to be conflict and the need for particular strategies at specific times. Here are the last two Backgammon plans to round out your game.
The Priming Game Plan
If the purpose of the blocking tactic is to slow down the opponent to shift his chips, the Priming Game plan is to completely block any activity of the opposing player by creating a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s chips will either get bumped, or end up in a battered position if she ever tries to escape the wall. The ambush of the prime can be established anyplace between point 2 and point 11 in your game board. After you’ve successfully constructed the prime to stop the movement of your competitor, the opponent does not even get a chance to toss the dice, and you move your checkers and roll the dice again. You’ll be a winner for sure.
The Back Game Strategy
The aims of the Back Game technique and the Blocking Game strategy are similar – to hinder your competitor’s positions in hope to better your chances of winning, but the Back Game tactic uses alternate tactics to achieve that. The Back Game tactic is generally employed when you’re far behind your competitor. To participate in Backgammon with this strategy, you need to control 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single piece) late in the game. This plan is more complex than others to use in Backgammon because it requires careful movement of your checkers and how the checkers are moved is partly the outcome of the dice roll.
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