As we have dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a game of skill and pure luck. The goal is to move your checkers carefully around the board to your inside board and at the same time your opponent moves their chips toward their inner board in the opposite direction. With opposing player chips moving in opposing directions there is going to be conflict and the requirement for particular strategies at particular times. Here are the two final Backgammon techniques to finish off your game.
The Priming Game Plan
If the purpose of the blocking plan is to hamper the opponents ability to shift her pieces, the Priming Game strategy is to absolutely stop any activity of the opposing player by assembling a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s pieces will either get hit, or end up in a bad position if he at all tries to leave the wall. The trap of the prime can be setup anyplace between point 2 and point eleven in your board. Once you’ve successfully assembled the prime to prevent the movement of your competitor, the competitor doesn’t even get to toss the dice, and you move your chips and toss the dice yet again. You’ll win the game for sure.
The Back Game Technique
The goals of the Back Game technique and the Blocking Game strategy are very similar – to hurt your competitor’s positions hoping to boost your chances of succeeding, but the Back Game tactic utilizes alternate tactics to do that. The Back Game technique is commonly employed when you are far behind your competitor. To play Backgammon with this strategy, you need to hold 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This strategy is more difficult than others to employ in Backgammon because it needs careful movement of your chips and how the chips are relocated is partially the result of the dice toss.