As we have dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a game of skill and pure luck. The goal is to shift your pieces safely around the game board to your home board and at the same time your opposing player shifts their checkers toward their inside board in the opposite direction. With opposing player checkers heading in opposing directions there is bound to be conflict and the requirement for specific tactics at particular instances. Here are the 2 final Backgammon techniques to finish off your game.
The Priming Game Strategy
If the aim of the blocking strategy is to hamper the opponents ability to shift his checkers, the Priming Game plan is to completely barricade any movement of the opposing player by assembling a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s pieces will either get bumped, or end up in a bad position if she ever attempts to leave the wall. The ambush of the prime can be established anyplace between point 2 and point 11 in your game board. Once you’ve successfully constructed the prime to stop the activity of your competitor, your competitor doesn’t even get to roll the dice, and you move your chips and roll the dice again. You’ll win the game for sure.
The Back Game Strategy
The goals of the Back Game technique and the Blocking Game tactic are similar – to harm your opponent’s positions with hope to better your odds of winning, however the Back Game tactic relies on alternate techniques to do that. The Back Game tactic is commonly utilized when you are far behind your opponent. To participate in Backgammon with this technique, you need to hold 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single checker) late in the game. This plan is more difficult than others to play in Backgammon because it requires careful movement of your checkers and how the chips are moved is partially the result of the dice roll.