As we dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a game of ability and good luck. The goal is to move your chips carefully around the board to your home board and at the same time your opposing player shifts their checkers toward their home board in the opposing direction. With opposing player checkers shifting in opposing directions there is going to be conflict and the requirement for particular techniques at particular times. Here are the last 2 Backgammon techniques to finish off your game.
The Priming Game Strategy
If the goal of the blocking tactic is to slow down the opponent to move her checkers, the Priming Game plan is to completely barricade any activity of the opponent by building a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s checkers will either get bumped, or end up in a bad position if he ever attempts to leave the wall. The ambush of the prime can be built anywhere between point two and point eleven in your game board. Once you have successfully constructed the prime to prevent the activity of your opponent, your competitor doesn’t even get a chance to toss the dice, that means you shift your pieces and roll the dice again. You’ll be a winner for sure.
The Back Game Technique
The goals of the Back Game strategy and the Blocking Game tactic are similar – to harm your opponent’s positions with hope to boost your odds of succeeding, however the Back Game technique uses different tactics to do that. The Back Game plan is often used when you are far behind your competitor. To play Backgammon with this strategy, you have to control 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single piece) late in the game. This strategy is more challenging than others to employ in Backgammon because it needs careful movement of your chips and how the checkers are moved is partly the outcome of the dice roll.