As we dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a game of ability and good luck. The goal is to shift your checkers safely around the game board to your inside board and at the same time your opponent shifts their checkers toward their inside board in the opposing direction. With competing player chips shifting in opposing directions there is bound to be conflict and the need for specific tactics at particular instances. Here are the 2 final Backgammon plans to complete your game.
The Priming Game Strategy
If the goal of the blocking strategy is to slow down the opponent to move her checkers, the Priming Game tactic is to completely stop any movement of the opposing player by creating a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s pieces will either get hit, or result a battered position if he/she ever tries to escape the wall. The trap of the prime can be setup anywhere between point two and point eleven in your half of the board. Once you have successfully built the prime to prevent the movement of the competitor, your competitor does not even get a chance to roll the dice, and you move your pieces and roll the dice again. You’ll win the game for sure.
The Back Game Technique
The aims of the Back Game strategy and the Blocking Game strategy are similar – to hurt your competitor’s positions in hope to boost your odds of winning, however the Back Game tactic relies on seperate tactics to achieve that. The Back Game technique is commonly utilized when you’re far behind your opponent. To play Backgammon with this tactic, you need to hold 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This strategy is more complex than others to play in Backgammon seeing as it requires careful movement of your chips and how the checkers are relocated is partly the result of the dice toss.