As we have dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a casino game of ability and pure luck. The goal is to shift your pieces carefully around the game board to your home board and at the same time your opponent shifts their chips toward their inner board in the opposing direction. With opposing player pieces shifting in opposing directions there is bound to be conflict and the requirement for specific strategies at particular instances. Here are the 2 final Backgammon techniques to round out your game.
The Priming Game Plan
If the purpose of the blocking strategy is to slow down the opponent to move their pieces, the Priming Game strategy is to completely block any activity of the opposing player by assembling a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s chips will either get bumped, or end up in a battered position if he ever attempts to leave the wall. The trap of the prime can be setup anyplace between point two and point 11 in your game board. After you’ve successfully assembled the prime to block the movement of your opponent, the competitor does not even get a chance to toss the dice, and you move your checkers and toss the dice again. You’ll win the game for sure.
The Back Game Strategy
The aims of the Back Game technique and the Blocking Game plan are similar – to hurt your competitor’s positions in hope to better your chances of succeeding, but the Back Game plan utilizes alternate tactics to do that. The Back Game strategy is frequently employed when you are far behind your opponent. To play Backgammon with this plan, you have to hold two or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single piece) late in the game. This plan is more difficult than others to use in Backgammon seeing as it needs careful movement of your chips and how the chips are moved is partly the result of the dice roll.