As we have dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a casino game of skill and good luck. The goal is to shift your pieces safely around the board to your inner board and at the same time your opponent shifts their checkers toward their inside board in the opposing direction. With opposing player checkers shifting in opposing directions there is going to be conflict and the requirement for particular strategies at particular times. Here are the last two Backgammon strategies to round out your game.
The Priming Game Strategy
If the aim of the blocking strategy is to slow down the opponent to move his chips, the Priming Game plan is to completely block any movement of the opponent by creating a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s checkers will either get hit, or end up in a damaged position if he/she at all tries to leave the wall. The ambush of the prime can be built anyplace between point 2 and point 11 in your board. Once you have successfully constructed the prime to stop the activity of the opponent, the opponent does not even get a chance to toss the dice, that means you shift your checkers and toss the dice yet again. You’ll win the game for sure.
The Back Game Technique
The goals of the Back Game plan and the Blocking Game strategy are similar – to hinder your opponent’s positions in hope to improve your odds of winning, but the Back Game tactic utilizes seperate techniques to do that. The Back Game plan is generally used when you are far behind your competitor. To play Backgammon with this strategy, you have to control 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single piece) late in the game. This strategy is more complex than others to employ in Backgammon because it requires careful movement of your chips and how the pieces are moved is partially the outcome of the dice toss.