As we dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a game of ability and good luck. The aim is to move your checkers safely around the board to your inside board while at the same time your opposing player shifts their pieces toward their home board in the opposite direction. With competing player checkers shifting in opposite directions there is going to be conflict and the requirement for specific techniques at specific instances. Here are the last two Backgammon techniques to round out your game.
The Priming Game Strategy
If the goal of the blocking plan is to slow down the opponent to move his checkers, the Priming Game strategy is to completely barricade any movement of the opposing player by creating a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s pieces will either get hit, or end up in a battered position if she at all tries to escape the wall. The ambush of the prime can be built anywhere between point two and point eleven in your game board. Once you have successfully built the prime to block the activity of the competitor, the opponent does not even get to toss the dice, and you move your checkers and toss the dice yet again. You’ll be a winner for sure.
The Back Game Technique
The aims of the Back Game strategy and the Blocking Game technique are similar – to harm your competitor’s positions with hope to boost your odds of winning, however the Back Game technique relies on different techniques to do that. The Back Game technique is commonly employed when you’re far behind your competitor. To compete in Backgammon with this strategy, you have to hold 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This technique is more complex than others to play in Backgammon because it needs careful movement of your pieces and how the pieces are relocated is partially the result of the dice roll.