The Essential Facts of Backgammon Tactics – Part Two
Thursday, 2. January 2025
As we dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a game of ability and pure luck. The aim is to move your chips safely around the game board to your inside board while at the same time your opposition shifts their pieces toward their home board in the opposite direction. With opposing player pieces shifting in opposite directions there is bound to be conflict and the need for specific strategies at specific times. Here are the 2 final Backgammon plans to complete your game.
The Priming Game Strategy
If the aim of the blocking plan is to slow down the opponent to move his pieces, the Priming Game tactic is to completely barricade any movement of the opponent by building a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s chips will either get hit, or end up in a damaged position if she ever tries to leave the wall. The trap of the prime can be established anywhere between point 2 and point eleven in your game board. After you have successfully constructed the prime to block the movement of your competitor, the opponent doesn’t even get a chance to roll the dice, and you move your checkers and toss the dice again. You’ll win the game for sure.
The Back Game Tactic
The aims of the Back Game tactic and the Blocking Game technique are very similar – to hurt your opponent’s positions with hope to boost your odds of winning, but the Back Game technique uses seperate techniques to do that. The Back Game technique is generally utilized when you’re far behind your opponent. To play Backgammon with this strategy, you have to hold two or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single piece) late in the game. This strategy is more difficult than others to use in Backgammon because it needs careful movement of your checkers and how the pieces are relocated is partially the outcome of the dice toss.
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