The Basics of Backgammon Tactics – Part Two
Friday, 31. January 2025
As we dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a game of skill and luck. The aim is to move your chips safely around the game board to your inner board and at the same time your opposition shifts their pieces toward their inside board in the opposite direction. With competing player checkers shifting in opposing directions there is going to be conflict and the requirement for specific strategies at particular instances. Here are the last two Backgammon techniques to complete your game.
The Priming Game Strategy
If the purpose of the blocking strategy is to hamper the opponents ability to move her chips, the Priming Game strategy is to completely stop any activity of the opponent by assembling a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s pieces will either get hit, or end up in a bad position if he at all tries to leave the wall. The trap of the prime can be built anyplace between point two and point eleven in your game board. Once you’ve successfully built the prime to block the movement of your competitor, the opponent does not even get a chance to toss the dice, and you shift your checkers and toss the dice again. You will win the game for sure.
The Back Game Strategy
The aims of the Back Game technique and the Blocking Game plan are similar – to hurt your competitor’s positions in hope to improve your odds of winning, however the Back Game strategy uses alternate techniques to achieve that. The Back Game plan is generally utilized when you are far behind your competitor. To compete in Backgammon with this plan, you need to control 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single checker) late in the game. This technique is more complex than others to employ in Backgammon because it requires careful movement of your checkers and how the chips are relocated is partly the result of the dice toss.
Posted in Backgammon by Jada