As we have dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a game of skill and good luck. The aim is to move your pieces safely around the board to your inside board and at the same time your opponent moves their pieces toward their inside board in the opposing direction. With competing player checkers moving in opposite directions there is going to be conflict and the requirement for specific strategies at particular instances. Here are the two final Backgammon techniques to finish off your game.
The Priming Game Tactic
If the goal of the blocking plan is to slow down the opponent to shift their pieces, the Priming Game strategy is to completely barricade any activity of the opposing player by building a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s chips will either get bumped, or end up in a battered position if she at all tries to escape the wall. The trap of the prime can be setup anyplace between point two and point 11 in your board. After you have successfully built the prime to stop the activity of the competitor, your competitor does not even get to toss the dice, and you shift your checkers and toss the dice yet again. You’ll be a winner for sure.
The Back Game Plan
The goals of the Back Game plan and the Blocking Game technique are similar – to harm your competitor’s positions hoping to improve your odds of winning, but the Back Game strategy uses seperate tactics to achieve that. The Back Game tactic is commonly utilized when you are far behind your competitor. 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 difficult than others to employ in Backgammon seeing as it needs careful movement of your pieces and how the pieces are relocated is partially the outcome of the dice toss.