As we have dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a casino game of talent and luck. The goal is to shift your pieces carefully around the game board to your home board and at the same time your opponent shifts their chips toward their inner board in the opposite direction. With competing player pieces moving in opposite directions there is going to be conflict and the need for particular techniques at specific times. Here are the last two Backgammon techniques to round out your game.
The Priming Game Strategy
If the aim of the blocking tactic is to slow down the opponent to shift his pieces, the Priming Game strategy is to completely barricade any activity of the opponent by building a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s checkers 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 2 and point eleven in your half of the board. After you’ve successfully constructed the prime to block the movement of your competitor, the competitor does not even get to toss the dice, and you shift your pieces and roll the dice again. You’ll be a winner for sure.
The Back Game Strategy
The objectives of the Back Game plan and the Blocking Game tactic are very similar – to harm your competitor’s positions in hope to boost your odds of winning, but the Back Game technique relies on alternate techniques to achieve that. The Back Game strategy is commonly used when you are far behind your competitor. To compete in Backgammon with this tactic, you have to control 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single checker) late in the game. This strategy is more difficult than others to employ in Backgammon seeing as it requires careful movement of your chips and how the pieces are moved is partly the outcome of the dice roll.