As we dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a game of skill and luck. The goal is to move your checkers carefully around the board to your home board while at the same time your opposition shifts their pieces toward their home board in the opposite direction. With competing player checkers heading in opposing directions there is bound to be conflict and the need for specific techniques at specific times. Here are the last 2 Backgammon strategies to complete your game.
The Priming Game Strategy
If the aim of the blocking strategy is to hamper the opponents ability to shift their chips, the Priming Game plan is to completely block any movement 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 she ever tries to leave the wall. The trap of the prime can be built anyplace between point two and point eleven in your game board. Once you’ve successfully assembled the prime to prevent the movement of your competitor, the competitor doesn’t even get a chance to roll the dice, and you move your pieces and toss the dice yet again. You’ll win the game for sure.
The Back Game Strategy
The goals of the Back Game strategy and the Blocking Game technique are very similar – to hinder your opponent’s positions in hope to improve your odds of succeeding, but the Back Game plan relies on different tactics to achieve that. The Back Game technique is often used when you’re far behind your opponent. To play Backgammon with this strategy, you need to hold 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single checker) late in the game. This strategy is more challenging than others to use in Backgammon because it requires careful movement of your chips and how the chips are moved is partly the result of the dice roll.