As we dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a game of skill and good luck. The aim is to shift your chips safely around the board to your inner board and at the same time your opposition shifts their chips toward their inner board in the opposing direction. With competing player pieces shifting in opposite directions there is bound to be conflict and the requirement for particular tactics at particular instances. Here are the last 2 Backgammon techniques to round out your game.
The Priming Game Plan
If the aim of the blocking strategy is to hamper the opponents ability to move her chips, the Priming Game plan is to completely block any movement of the opponent by constructing a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s pieces will either get bumped, or end up in a bad position if she at all tries to leave the wall. The ambush of the prime can be built anyplace between point two and point 11 in your board. Once you’ve successfully assembled the prime to block the activity of the opponent, the competitor does not even get a chance to roll the dice, and you shift your pieces and roll the dice yet again. You’ll be a winner for sure.
The Back Game Strategy
The objectives of the Back Game tactic and the Blocking Game technique are similar – to harm your opponent’s positions hoping to better your odds of winning, however the Back Game technique utilizes different tactics to do that. The Back Game strategy is commonly utilized when you are far behind your opponent. To play Backgammon with this technique, you need to hold two or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This technique is more difficult than others to use in Backgammon seeing as it requires careful movement of your checkers and how the checkers are moved is partly the outcome of the dice toss.