As we have dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a game of ability and luck. The goal is to shift your chips carefully around the board to your home board and at the same time your opposition moves their chips toward their inside board in the opposite direction. With opposing player checkers moving in opposing directions there is going to be conflict and the need for particular strategies at particular instances. Here are the last 2 Backgammon techniques to round out your game.
The Priming Game Plan
If the purpose of the blocking strategy is to hamper the opponents ability to shift her pieces, the Priming Game tactic is to absolutely stop any activity of the opponent by creating a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s pieces will either get bumped, or end up in a battered position if he at all attempts to leave the wall. The ambush of the prime can be built anywhere between point 2 and point eleven in your game board. Once you have successfully constructed the prime to prevent the activity of your competitor, the competitor does not even get to toss the dice, that means you shift your pieces and toss the dice yet again. You will win the game for sure.
The Back Game Strategy
The aims of the Back Game strategy and the Blocking Game plan are similar – to hurt your opponent’s positions hoping to improve your odds of succeeding, but the Back Game strategy utilizes alternate techniques to do that. The Back Game strategy is generally employed when you’re 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 late in the game. This plan is more complex than others to employ in Backgammon seeing as it needs careful movement of your pieces and how the chips are moved is partly the result of the dice toss.