As we dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a game of talent and good luck. The goal is to move your pieces carefully around the game board to your home board while at the same time your opponent moves their pieces toward their home board in the opposite direction. With competing player checkers moving in opposing directions there is going to be conflict and the need for specific techniques at specific instances. Here are the last two Backgammon techniques to finish off your game.
The Priming Game Plan
If the goal of the blocking strategy is to slow down the opponent to move their chips, the Priming Game strategy is to completely block any activity of the opposing player by building a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s chips will either get hit, or end up in a battered position if he/she ever attempts to leave the wall. The trap of the prime can be built anyplace between point 2 and point eleven in your half of the board. After you’ve successfully built the prime to prevent the activity of the competitor, your opponent doesn’t even get a chance to roll 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 plan and the Blocking Game tactic are similar – to harm your opponent’s positions with hope to better your odds of succeeding, but the Back Game plan relies on seperate tactics to achieve that. The Back Game tactic is generally utilized when you’re far behind your opponent. To play Backgammon with this technique, you have to hold 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This tactic is more difficult than others to employ in Backgammon because it needs careful movement of your chips and how the pieces are moved is partly the outcome of the dice toss.