As we have dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a casino game of skill and luck. The aim is to shift your chips carefully around the game board to your inner board while at the same time your opposition moves their chips toward their inside board in the opposite direction. With opposing player pieces shifting in opposing directions there is going to be conflict and the requirement for specific techniques at particular times. Here are the two final Backgammon strategies to finish off your game.
The Priming Game Plan
If the goal of the blocking strategy is to slow down the opponent to shift his checkers, the Priming Game strategy is to absolutely block any movement of the opponent by assembling a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s chips will either get bumped, or end up in a battered position if he/she ever attempts to leave the wall. The ambush of the prime can be built anywhere between point 2 and point 11 in your board. Once you’ve successfully built the prime to prevent the activity of your competitor, your opponent doesn’t even get to roll the dice, that means you move your chips and toss the dice yet again. You will be a winner for sure.
The Back Game Strategy
The objectives of the Back Game technique and the Blocking Game technique are similar – to hinder your opponent’s positions in hope to better your odds of winning, but the Back Game technique uses different techniques to achieve that. The Back Game strategy is generally used when you are far behind your competitor. 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 technique is more complex than others to use in Backgammon seeing as it requires careful movement of your checkers and how the checkers are relocated is partially the outcome of the dice roll.