The Essential Facts of Backgammon Tactics – Part Two
Friday, 24. January 2025
As we dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a game of ability and luck. The goal is to shift your chips safely around the board to your inner board and at the same time your opposition shifts their checkers toward their home board in the opposite direction. With opposing player pieces heading in opposite directions there is bound to be conflict and the need for specific strategies at specific instances. Here are the last 2 Backgammon tactics to round out your game.
The Priming Game Strategy
If the goal of the blocking strategy is to slow down the opponent to move their pieces, the Priming Game tactic is to completely stop any movement of the opponent by creating a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s checkers will either get hit, or end up in a damaged position if he/she ever attempts to leave the wall. The ambush of the prime can be built anyplace between point two and point eleven in your board. After you have successfully constructed the prime to prevent the activity of the competitor, your competitor does not even get to roll the dice, and you move your chips and roll the dice yet again. You’ll win the game for sure.
The Back Game Strategy
The aims of the Back Game strategy and the Blocking Game plan are very similar – to harm your opponent’s positions hoping to improve your chances of succeeding, but the Back Game tactic utilizes alternate tactics to do that. The Back Game plan is frequently used when you’re far behind your opponent. To compete in Backgammon with this tactic, you have to control 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 play in Backgammon because it requires careful movement of your chips and how the checkers are moved is partly the outcome of the dice roll.
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