As we dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a casino game of skill and good luck. The goal is to shift your pieces carefully around the game board to your inside board and at the same time your opposing player moves their checkers toward their home board in the opposing direction. With opposing player pieces heading in opposing directions there is going to be conflict and the need for particular techniques at specific instances. Here are the last two Backgammon strategies to finish off your game.
The Priming Game Strategy
If the purpose of the blocking tactic is to slow down the opponent to move their checkers, the Priming Game tactic is to completely stop any activity of the opposing player by creating a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s pieces will either get bumped, or result a damaged position if she at all tries to escape the wall. The ambush of the prime can be built anywhere between point 2 and point eleven in your game board. As soon as you’ve successfully assembled the prime to block the activity of your competitor, your opponent does not even get a chance to roll the dice, and you move your chips and toss the dice again. You will be a winner for sure.
The Back Game Strategy
The aims of the Back Game plan and the Blocking Game strategy are very similar – to hinder your opponent’s positions in hope to boost your odds of winning, however the Back Game strategy uses alternate tactics to do that. The Back Game tactic is generally utilized when you’re far behind your opponent. To participate in Backgammon with this strategy, you need to control 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single checker) late in the game. This strategy is more challenging than others to employ in Backgammon because it requires careful movement of your pieces and how the pieces are relocated is partly the result of the dice roll.
January 14th, 2017
Lee
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