As we have dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a game of talent and pure luck. The goal is to shift your chips carefully around the game board to your inner board while at the same time your opposition shifts their chips toward their home board in the opposite direction. With opposing player pieces moving in opposite directions there is bound to be conflict and the need for specific techniques at particular instances. Here are the last two Backgammon strategies to complete your game.
The Priming Game Strategy
If the goal of the blocking plan is to slow down the opponent to shift his chips, the Priming Game plan is to absolutely barricade any movement of the opponent by creating a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s checkers will either get bumped, or end up in a damaged position if she at all attempts to leave the wall. The trap of the prime can be setup anywhere between point two and point eleven in your board. After you’ve successfully assembled the prime to stop the movement of your competitor, your competitor does not even get to roll the dice, and you shift your pieces and toss the dice again. You’ll be a winner for sure.
The Back Game Strategy
The goals of the Back Game plan and the Blocking Game plan are similar – to hurt your opponent’s positions hoping to better your chances of succeeding, but the Back Game plan relies on alternate tactics to achieve that. The Back Game strategy is generally employed when you’re far behind your opponent. To participate in Backgammon with this strategy, you have to hold 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single piece) late in the game. This strategy is more complex than others to use in Backgammon seeing as it needs careful movement of your checkers and how the checkers are relocated is partly the result of the dice roll.