As we have dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a game of talent and luck. The aim is to move your pieces carefully around the board to your home board and at the same time your opponent moves their checkers toward their inside board in the opposing direction. With competing player pieces heading in opposite directions there is bound to be conflict and the requirement for specific tactics at specific times. Here are the two final Backgammon strategies to finish off your game.
The Priming Game Strategy
If the goal of the blocking tactic is to slow down the opponent to shift his chips, the Priming Game tactic is to completely block any activity of the opponent by creating a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s pieces will either get bumped, or end up in a damaged position if she at all tries to leave the wall. The trap of the prime can be established anyplace between point 2 and point eleven in your half of the board. Once you’ve successfully assembled the prime to stop the movement of the opponent, the competitor doesn’t even get to roll the dice, and you shift your pieces and toss the dice again. You’ll win the game for sure.
The Back Game Technique
The aims of the Back Game tactic and the Blocking Game tactic are very similar – to hurt your opponent’s positions in hope to improve your odds of succeeding, but the Back Game strategy relies on alternate techniques to do that. The Back Game strategy is frequently employed when you are far behind your competitor. To play Backgammon with this plan, you need to control 2 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 because it needs careful movement of your pieces and how the chips are relocated is partially the outcome of the dice toss.