As we dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a casino game of ability and luck. The goal is to shift your chips safely around the game board to your home board and at the same time your opponent shifts their chips toward their inner board in the opposing direction. With competing player checkers shifting in opposite directions there is bound to be conflict and the need for particular strategies at specific instances. Here are the 2 final Backgammon techniques to round out your game.
The Priming Game Strategy
If the aim of the blocking plan is to slow down the opponent to shift her chips, the Priming Game plan is to absolutely block any movement of the opponent by creating a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s chips will either get hit, or end up in a bad position if he at all attempts to escape the wall. The trap of the prime can be setup anywhere between point two and point 11 in your half of the board. As soon as you have successfully built the prime to block the movement of the opponent, the competitor does not even get a chance to toss the dice, and you shift your chips and roll the dice again. You’ll win the game for sure.
The Back Game Strategy
The aims of the Back Game plan and the Blocking Game tactic are similar – to hurt your opponent’s positions in hope to boost your odds of winning, however the Back Game tactic uses alternate techniques to do that. The Back Game tactic is commonly utilized when you’re far behind your competitor. To participate in Backgammon with this technique, you need to hold 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single piece) late in the game. This plan is more difficult than others to employ in Backgammon because it requires careful movement of your chips and how the chips are relocated is partly the outcome of the dice toss.