As we have dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a game of ability and pure luck. The goal is to shift your chips carefully around the game board to your inside board while at the same time your opposition shifts their chips toward their inner board in the opposing direction. With opposing player chips moving in opposite directions there is going to be conflict and the need for particular strategies at specific instances. Here are the two final Backgammon plans to finish off your game.
The Priming Game Tactic
If the aim of the blocking tactic is to hamper the opponents ability to shift her pieces, the Priming Game plan is to absolutely block any activity of the opponent by constructing a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s checkers will either get bumped, or end up in a damaged position if she at all attempts to escape the wall. The ambush of the prime can be built anywhere between point two and point eleven in your game board. After you’ve successfully constructed the prime to block the movement of your opponent, your competitor doesn’t even get to roll the dice, that means you shift your checkers and roll the dice yet again. You’ll be a winner for sure.
The Back Game Strategy
The aims of the Back Game tactic and the Blocking Game tactic are similar – to hurt your competitor’s positions in hope to improve your odds of succeeding, however the Back Game technique uses alternate tactics to achieve that. The Back Game technique is commonly employed when you’re far behind your competitor. To play Backgammon with this plan, you need to control two or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This strategy is more challenging than others to play in Backgammon seeing as it requires careful movement of your chips and how the pieces are relocated is partly the outcome of the dice roll.