As we dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a game of ability and good luck. The aim is to move your chips safely around the game board to your inside board while at the same time your opposing player shifts their chips toward their inside board in the opposite direction. With opposing player chips heading in opposite directions there is going to be conflict and the need for specific tactics at specific times. Here are the last 2 Backgammon techniques to round out your game.
The Priming Game Plan
If the goal of the blocking strategy is to slow down the opponent to shift her chips, the Priming Game strategy is to completely block any activity of the opposing player by assembling a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s pieces will either get bumped, or result a battered position if he/she ever attempts to escape the wall. The trap of the prime can be built anywhere between point 2 and point 11 in your board. As soon as you’ve successfully constructed the prime to stop the movement of the competitor, your opponent does not even get a chance to roll the dice, that means you move your checkers and toss the dice again. You’ll be a winner for sure.
The Back Game Strategy
The goals of the Back Game technique and the Blocking Game strategy are very similar – to hinder your competitor’s positions with hope to boost your odds of winning, but the Back Game plan utilizes different tactics to do that. The Back Game technique is generally employed when you are far behind your competitor. To play Backgammon with this plan, you need to hold two or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single piece) late in the game. This strategy is more challenging than others to use in Backgammon because it needs careful movement of your chips and how the pieces are moved is partly the result of the dice roll.