As we have dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a casino game of ability and luck. The goal is to shift your checkers safely around the game board to your home board while at the same time your opponent moves their chips toward their inside board in the opposing direction. With competing player checkers heading in opposite directions there is going to be conflict and the need for particular techniques at specific times. Here are the two final Backgammon techniques to round out your game.
The Priming Game Plan
If the goal of the blocking tactic is to hamper the opponents ability to move their chips, the Priming Game tactic is to completely barricade any activity of the opponent by building a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s pieces will either get hit, or end up in a bad position if she at all tries to leave the wall. The ambush of the prime can be setup anyplace between point 2 and point 11 in your board. After you have successfully built the prime to stop the movement of your opponent, the opponent does not even get to roll the dice, that means you move your pieces and roll the dice yet again. You’ll be a winner for sure.
The Back Game Strategy
The aims of the Back Game technique and the Blocking Game plan are very similar – to hurt your competitor’s positions in hope to boost your odds of succeeding, but the Back Game plan uses different techniques to achieve that. The Back Game technique is commonly employed when you’re far behind your opponent. To participate in Backgammon with this technique, you have to control 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single piece) late in the game. This plan is more complex than others to play in Backgammon seeing as it requires careful movement of your checkers and how the chips are relocated is partly the result of the dice toss.