As we dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a casino game of skill and luck. The goal is to move your chips carefully around the game board to your inside board and at the same time your opposing player moves their checkers toward their home board in the opposite direction. With competing player pieces heading in opposite directions there is going to be conflict and the requirement for specific techniques at particular times. Here are the last two Backgammon techniques to complete your game.
The Priming Game Strategy
If the aim of the blocking plan is to slow down the opponent to shift her checkers, the Priming Game strategy is to absolutely barricade any movement of the opposing player by building a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s chips will either get hit, or end up in a bad position if he at all tries to leave the wall. The trap of the prime can be established anyplace between point 2 and point eleven in your half of the board. After you’ve successfully constructed the prime to stop the activity of your opponent, the competitor doesn’t even get a chance to roll the dice, that means you shift your chips and toss the dice yet again. You’ll be a winner for sure.
The Back Game Tactic
The aims of the Back Game tactic and the Blocking Game tactic are similar – to harm your competitor’s positions in hope to better your odds of winning, however the Back Game technique uses different techniques to achieve that. The Back Game strategy is commonly used when you are far behind your competitor. To compete in Backgammon with this technique, you need to control 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This technique is more challenging than others to use in Backgammon seeing as it needs careful movement of your pieces and how the chips are relocated is partly the result of the dice toss.