As we have dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a game of talent and good luck. The goal is to move your checkers carefully around the game board to your home board and at the same time your opponent shifts their chips toward their home board in the opposing direction. With competing player pieces shifting in opposing directions there is bound to be conflict and the need for specific techniques at specific times. Here are the last 2 Backgammon strategies to complete your game.
The Priming Game Tactic
If the goal of the blocking strategy is to slow down the opponent to move their chips, the Priming Game strategy is to absolutely stop any movement of the opponent by assembling a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s pieces will either get hit, or end up in a bad position if he/she ever attempts to leave the wall. The trap of the prime can be established anyplace between point 2 and point eleven in your board. As soon as you’ve successfully constructed the prime to prevent the movement of your opponent, the competitor doesn’t even get a chance to toss the dice, and you move your pieces and roll the dice yet again. You will be a winner for sure.
The Back Game Strategy
The objectives of the Back Game strategy and the Blocking Game technique are very similar – to harm your competitor’s positions in hope to better your odds of winning, but the Back Game tactic utilizes alternate techniques to do that. The Back Game tactic is frequently utilized when you’re far behind your opponent. To play Backgammon with this tactic, you need to hold 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single checker) late in the game. This technique is more challenging than others to use in Backgammon seeing as it requires careful movement of your chips and how the pieces are moved is partially the outcome of the dice toss.