As we dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a game of ability and luck. The aim is to move your pieces carefully around the board to your inner board while at the same time your opposing player moves their chips toward their home board in the opposing direction. With competing player pieces heading in opposing directions there is going to be conflict and the requirement for specific techniques at particular times. Here are the last 2 Backgammon strategies to finish off your game.
The Priming Game Plan
If the goal of the blocking tactic is to slow down the opponent to move her checkers, 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 checkers will either get bumped, or result a damaged position if he ever attempts to leave the wall. The trap of the prime can be setup anyplace between point 2 and point 11 in your 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 move your pieces and toss the dice yet again. You’ll be a winner for sure.
The Back Game Strategy
The objectives of the Back Game strategy and the Blocking Game technique are similar – to hurt your competitor’s positions with hope to better your chances of succeeding, but the Back Game technique relies on seperate techniques to do that. The Back Game plan is often employed when you are far behind your opponent. To play Backgammon with this technique, you have to hold 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single checker) late in the game. This strategy is more challenging than others to play in Backgammon seeing as it needs careful movement of your chips and how the checkers are moved is partially the result of the dice toss.