As we have dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a game of talent and luck. The aim is to move your chips safely around the board to your inner board and at the same time your opposition moves their chips toward their inner board in the opposite direction. With opposing player checkers moving in opposing directions there is bound to be conflict and the requirement for specific techniques at particular times. Here are the last two Backgammon techniques to round out your game.
The Priming Game Strategy
If the purpose of the blocking plan is to slow down the opponent to shift their pieces, the Priming Game strategy is to completely barricade any movement of the opposing player by constructing a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s pieces will either get bumped, or end up in a bad position if he ever tries to leave the wall. The ambush of the prime can be established anyplace between point 2 and point 11 in your game board. As soon as you have successfully assembled the prime to prevent the movement of the competitor, your competitor doesn’t even get to toss the dice, and you shift your pieces and roll the dice yet again. You will be a winner for sure.
The Back Game Strategy
The aims of the Back Game strategy and the Blocking Game technique are similar – to harm your competitor’s positions with hope to boost your odds of winning, but the Back Game strategy utilizes different techniques to do that. The Back Game strategy is generally utilized when you are far behind your competitor. To compete in Backgammon with this strategy, you have to control two or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single checker) late in the game. This plan is more complex than others to use in Backgammon seeing as it requires careful movement of your chips and how the chips are relocated is partly the outcome of the dice toss.