As we dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a game of talent and luck. The goal is to shift your pieces safely around the board to your inside board and at the same time your opposition shifts their checkers toward their inside board in the opposing direction. With competing player checkers heading in opposite directions there is going to be conflict and the need for specific tactics at particular instances. Here are the last two Backgammon strategies to finish off your game.
The Priming Game Strategy
If the purpose of the blocking tactic is to slow down the opponent to shift his pieces, the Priming Game plan is to completely block any activity of the opponent by assembling a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s chips will either get hit, or result a bad position if he/she ever attempts to escape the wall. The trap of the prime can be built anyplace between point 2 and point eleven in your half of the board. As soon as you have successfully constructed the prime to stop the movement of the competitor, your competitor doesn’t even get a chance to roll the dice, that means you shift your pieces and roll the dice again. You’ll win the game for sure.
The Back Game Technique
The aims of the Back Game technique and the Blocking Game strategy are similar – to harm your opponent’s positions with hope to better your odds of winning, however the Back Game tactic relies on different techniques to achieve that. The Back Game tactic is frequently employed when you are far behind your opponent. To compete in Backgammon with this tactic, you have to hold 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This plan is more complex than others to play in Backgammon because it needs careful movement of your pieces and how the pieces are relocated is partially the result of the dice roll.