As we have dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a casino game of skill and luck. The goal is to move your pieces safely around the game board to your inner board while at the same time your opposing player shifts their chips toward their home board in the opposite direction. With competing player pieces moving in opposite directions there is going to be conflict and the need for specific strategies at specific instances. Here are the 2 final Backgammon plans to complete your game.
The Priming Game Strategy
If the goal of the blocking strategy is to hamper the opponents ability to move their chips, the Priming Game tactic is to absolutely block any movement of the opposing player by constructing a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s chips will either get bumped, or end up in a battered position if he/she at all attempts to escape the wall. The ambush of the prime can be setup anyplace between point two and point 11 in your half of the board. Once you have successfully built the prime to prevent the activity of the competitor, the opponent does not even get a chance to roll the dice, and you shift your chips and roll the dice yet again. You’ll be a winner for sure.
The Back Game Strategy
The objectives of the Back Game technique and the Blocking Game technique are very similar – to hurt your opponent’s positions in hope to better your chances of winning, but the Back Game tactic relies on alternate techniques to do that. The Back Game plan is often used when you are far behind your opponent. To compete in Backgammon with this tactic, you need to control 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This tactic is more challenging than others to employ in Backgammon because it requires careful movement of your chips and how the chips are relocated is partly the outcome of the dice roll.