As we dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a casino game of skill and luck. The goal is to move your chips carefully around the game board to your home board while at the same time your opposition shifts their chips toward their inner board in the opposing direction. With opposing player chips moving in opposing directions there is bound to be conflict and the requirement for particular strategies at particular instances. Here are the 2 final Backgammon plans to round out your game.
The Priming Game Tactic
If the aim of the blocking plan is to hamper the opponents ability to move her checkers, the Priming Game strategy is to completely stop any activity of the opponent by assembling a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s pieces will either get bumped, or end up in a bad position if he ever tries to escape the wall. The ambush of the prime can be setup anyplace between point 2 and point eleven in your board. After you’ve successfully constructed the prime to prevent the activity of the opponent, your opponent doesn’t even get a chance to toss the dice, and you move your chips and toss the dice yet again. You will be a winner for sure.
The Back Game Technique
The objectives of the Back Game tactic and the Blocking Game tactic are similar – to hurt your opponent’s positions hoping to boost your odds of winning, however the Back Game strategy uses seperate tactics to achieve that. The Back Game technique is often utilized when you are far behind your competitor. To participate in Backgammon with this tactic, you need to hold 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This technique is more difficult than others to use in Backgammon because it needs careful movement of your chips and how the chips are moved is partly the result of the dice toss.