As we dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a game of skill and luck. The goal is to move your pieces safely around the board to your inner board and at the same time your opponent moves their chips toward their inside board in the opposing direction. With competing player chips moving in opposite directions there is bound to be conflict and the requirement for specific tactics at particular instances. Here are the 2 final Backgammon techniques to finish off your game.
The Priming Game Strategy
If the aim of the blocking plan is to slow down the opponent to shift their pieces, the Priming Game strategy is to completely stop any activity of the opponent by constructing a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s chips will either get bumped, or end up in a bad position if she ever tries to escape the wall. The trap of the prime can be built anywhere between point two and point eleven in your half of the board. As soon as you’ve successfully constructed the prime to stop the activity of your opponent, your opponent doesn’t even get to toss the dice, that means you move your chips and roll the dice again. You will win the game for sure.
The Back Game Tactic
The goals of the Back Game plan and the Blocking Game technique are very similar – to hurt your opponent’s positions in hope to improve your odds of succeeding, however the Back Game strategy uses alternate techniques to achieve that. The Back Game strategy is often employed when you are far behind your opponent. To play Backgammon with this plan, you have to hold 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This plan is more challenging than others to use in Backgammon seeing as it requires careful movement of your checkers and how the checkers are relocated is partly the outcome of the dice toss.