The Essential Basics of Backgammon Tactics – Part 2
Friday, 14. March 2025
As we dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a casino game of ability and good luck. The aim is to move your checkers safely around the board to your home board while at the same time your opposing player moves their pieces toward their inside board in the opposing direction. With competing player pieces heading in opposite directions there is going to be conflict and the requirement for particular tactics at particular instances. Here are the last two Backgammon tactics to complete your game.
The Priming Game Strategy
If the aim of the blocking plan is to slow down the opponent to shift his checkers, the Priming Game strategy is to absolutely block any movement of the opposing player by assembling a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s checkers will either get bumped, or result a bad position if he/she ever attempts to leave the wall. The ambush of the prime can be established anywhere between point two and point eleven in your half of the board. As soon as you have successfully assembled the prime to block the movement of your competitor, the competitor does not even get to toss the dice, that means you move your chips and roll the dice yet again. You will be a winner for sure.
The Back Game Strategy
The goals of the Back Game tactic and the Blocking Game strategy are very similar – to hinder your opponent’s positions in hope to boost your odds of succeeding, but the Back Game strategy utilizes different tactics to do that. The Back Game technique is often utilized when you are far behind your competitor. To compete in Backgammon with this technique, you have 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 use in Backgammon because it requires careful movement of your checkers and how the checkers are relocated is partially the result of the dice toss.
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