Categories

Archives

The Essential Basics of Backgammon Tactics – Part Two

As we dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a casino game of skill and luck. The aim is to shift your pieces carefully around the game board to your inner board and at the same time your opponent moves their checkers toward their inner board in the opposite direction. With opposing player checkers shifting in opposite directions there is going to be conflict and the need for specific tactics at specific times. Here are the 2 final Backgammon strategies to complete your game.

The Priming Game Plan

If the purpose of the blocking strategy is to slow down the opponent to move her pieces, the Priming Game tactic is to absolutely block any movement of the opponent by creating a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s checkers will either get hit, or result a damaged position if she at all tries to leave the wall. The ambush of the prime can be built anyplace between point two and point eleven in your game board. As soon as you’ve successfully assembled the prime to stop the movement of the competitor, your competitor does not even get a chance to toss the dice, that means 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 tactic and the Blocking Game tactic are similar – to harm your competitor’s positions with hope to improve your chances of winning, however the Back Game plan utilizes seperate tactics to do that. The Back Game plan is generally utilized when you are far behind your opponent. To participate in Backgammon with this tactic, you need to control 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This plan is more challenging than others to use in Backgammon seeing as it needs careful movement of your pieces and how the checkers are relocated is partly the result of the dice roll.

You must be logged in to post a comment.