As we dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a game of skill and pure luck. The goal is to move your pieces carefully around the board to your home board while at the same time your opponent shifts their pieces toward their inside board in the opposing direction. With competing player pieces moving in opposite directions there is bound to be conflict and the requirement for specific techniques at specific instances. Here are the last two Backgammon plans to round out your game.
The Priming Game Tactic
If the purpose of the blocking tactic is to slow down the opponent to shift his chips, the Priming Game strategy is to completely block any movement of the opposing player by building a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s checkers will either get bumped, or result a damaged position if he at all tries to escape the wall. The trap of the prime can be built anywhere between point two and point eleven in your game board. Once you’ve successfully assembled the prime to block the movement of your competitor, your competitor does not even get a chance to toss the dice, and you shift your chips and toss the dice yet again. You’ll win the game for sure.
The Back Game Plan
The aims of the Back Game technique and the Blocking Game plan are very similar – to harm your opponent’s positions with hope to better your odds of succeeding, however the Back Game technique utilizes alternate tactics to do that. The Back Game strategy is generally utilized when you’re far behind your competitor. To compete in Backgammon with this tactic, you have to hold two or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single piece) late in the game. This strategy is more challenging than others to play in Backgammon seeing as it requires careful movement of your chips and how the chips are moved is partly the outcome of the dice toss.