As we have dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a casino game of ability and pure luck. The goal is to shift your chips carefully around the game board to your inner board and at the same time your opposition moves their pieces toward their inside board in the opposing direction. With opposing player checkers moving in opposing directions there is going to be conflict and the need for particular techniques at particular times. Here are the two final Backgammon strategies to complete your game.
The Priming Game Plan
If the purpose of the blocking tactic is to hamper the opponents ability to shift their pieces, the Priming Game plan is to absolutely block any activity of the opposing player by building a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s checkers will either get bumped, or end up in a battered position if she ever tries to escape the wall. The ambush of the prime can be built anyplace between point 2 and point 11 in your board. Once you’ve successfully built the prime to prevent the movement of your opponent, your competitor does not even get to toss the dice, and you shift your checkers and toss the dice again. You will win the game for sure.
The Back Game Technique
The objectives of the Back Game tactic and the Blocking Game plan are similar – to harm your opponent’s positions with hope to boost your odds of winning, but the Back Game strategy relies on alternate techniques to do that. The Back Game plan is commonly employed when you’re far behind your opponent. To play Backgammon with this strategy, you have to control 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 employ in Backgammon because it requires careful movement of your pieces and how the chips are relocated is partly the result of the dice toss.