As we have dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a casino game of skill and pure luck. The goal is to move your checkers safely around the board to your inner board while at the same time your opposing player shifts their chips toward their home board in the opposing direction. With competing player chips moving in opposing directions there is going to be conflict and the requirement for particular strategies at specific times. Here are the last 2 Backgammon techniques to complete your game.
The Priming Game Strategy
If the aim of the blocking plan is to hamper the opponents ability to move his checkers, the Priming Game tactic is to completely block any activity of the opposing player by assembling a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s chips will either get bumped, or result a bad position if she ever attempts to leave the wall. The ambush of the prime can be setup anyplace between point 2 and point eleven in your half of the board. Once you’ve successfully assembled the prime to stop the movement of your competitor, the competitor doesn’t even get a chance to toss the dice, and you move your chips and toss the dice yet again. You will win the game for sure.
The Back Game Technique
The objectives of the Back Game plan and the Blocking Game strategy are very similar – to harm your competitor’s positions with hope to improve your odds of succeeding, but the Back Game tactic utilizes alternate techniques to do that. The Back Game technique is generally employed when you are far behind your opponent. To participate in Backgammon with this strategy, you need to control two or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single checker) late in the game. This tactic is more difficult than others to use in Backgammon seeing as it needs careful movement of your chips and how the checkers are moved is partially the outcome of the dice toss.