As we dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a casino game of talent and good luck. The goal is to move your pieces safely around the game board to your inner board while at the same time your opposition shifts their checkers toward their inner board in the opposite direction. With competing player chips heading in opposite directions there is going to be conflict and the need for particular techniques at specific times. Here are the 2 final Backgammon strategies to complete your game.
The Priming Game Tactic
If the goal of the blocking plan is to slow down the opponent to shift their pieces, the Priming Game tactic is to absolutely block any activity of the opposing player by creating a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s checkers will either get bumped, or end up in a battered position if he/she at all attempts to escape the wall. The trap of the prime can be built anywhere between point two and point eleven in your half of the board. After you’ve successfully constructed the prime to block the movement of your opponent, the competitor doesn’t even get to toss the dice, that means you shift your chips and roll the dice again. You’ll be a winner for sure.
The Back Game Technique
The aims of the Back Game strategy and the Blocking Game strategy are very similar – to harm your opponent’s positions in hope to boost your chances of succeeding, but the Back Game technique relies on seperate tactics to achieve that. The Back Game plan is commonly used when you are far behind your opponent. To participate in Backgammon with this tactic, you have to hold two or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single piece) late in the game. This plan is more difficult than others to play in Backgammon seeing as it requires careful movement of your checkers and how the pieces are moved is partly the result of the dice roll.