As we have dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a game of skill and good luck. The goal is to move your checkers safely around the board to your inside board and at the same time your opposition shifts their pieces toward their inner board in the opposing direction. With opposing player checkers heading in opposing directions there is going to be conflict and the need for specific techniques at specific instances. Here are the last 2 Backgammon strategies to finish off your game.
The Priming Game Strategy
If the goal of the blocking tactic is to slow down the opponent to move his pieces, the Priming Game tactic is to completely stop any activity of the opposing player by creating a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s pieces will either get bumped, or end up in a battered position if she ever attempts to escape the wall. The ambush of the prime can be built anywhere between point two and point eleven in your game board. As soon as you have successfully built the prime to prevent the movement of the opponent, the opponent doesn’t even get to toss the dice, and you move your checkers and roll the dice yet again. You’ll win the game for sure.
The Back Game Tactic
The goals of the Back Game strategy and the Blocking Game strategy are similar – to harm your competitor’s positions in hope to improve your odds of succeeding, however the Back Game technique utilizes different techniques to achieve that. The Back Game plan is generally utilized when you’re far behind your competitor. To compete in Backgammon with this technique, you have to hold 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This technique is more challenging than others to play in Backgammon because it needs careful movement of your checkers and how the chips are moved is partly the result of the dice toss.