As we dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a casino game of talent and pure luck. The aim is to move your checkers safely around the board to your inner board while at the same time your opponent shifts their checkers toward their inner board in the opposing direction. With competing player pieces moving in opposite directions there is bound to be conflict and the requirement for particular strategies at particular instances. Here are the last 2 Backgammon plans to complete your game.
The Priming Game Tactic
If the purpose of the blocking tactic is to hamper the opponents ability to move their pieces, the Priming Game strategy is to absolutely barricade any movement of the opponent by creating a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s chips will either get bumped, or end up in a damaged position if he/she at all attempts to escape the wall. The trap of the prime can be established anywhere between point 2 and point eleven in your game board. As soon as you’ve successfully assembled the prime to block the movement of your opponent, your competitor doesn’t even get to roll the dice, that means you move your chips and roll the dice again. You will win the game for sure.
The Back Game Technique
The goals of the Back Game technique and the Blocking Game technique are very similar – to hinder your competitor’s positions in hope to improve your chances of winning, but the Back Game plan relies on alternate techniques to do that. The Back Game strategy is commonly used when you are far behind your opponent. To play Backgammon with this strategy, you need to control two or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single piece) late in the game. This plan is more challenging than others to play in Backgammon because it requires careful movement of your chips and how the pieces are relocated is partly the outcome of the dice roll.