As we have dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a game of skill and luck. The aim is to shift your chips carefully around the board to your home board and at the same time your opposition moves their checkers toward their inside board in the opposing direction. With opposing player pieces moving in opposing directions there is going to be conflict and the requirement for particular tactics at specific instances. Here are the last two Backgammon techniques to complete your game.
The Priming Game Plan
If the goal of the blocking strategy is to hamper the opponents ability to move her chips, the Priming Game strategy is to completely barricade any activity of the opposing player by building a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s pieces will either get bumped, or end up in a damaged position if she ever attempts to escape the wall. The ambush of the prime can be built anywhere between point two and point 11 in your half of the board. As soon as you have successfully assembled the prime to block the activity of your competitor, the competitor does not even get a chance to roll the dice, and you move your chips and toss the dice again. You will be a winner for sure.
The Back Game Strategy
The objectives of the Back Game strategy and the Blocking Game tactic are similar – to hinder your competitor’s positions in hope to improve your odds of succeeding, but the Back Game plan relies on alternate tactics to achieve that. The Back Game strategy is generally utilized when you are far behind your competitor. To participate 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 tactic is more complex than others to play in Backgammon seeing as it requires careful movement of your chips and how the pieces are moved is partially the outcome of the dice roll.