As we dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a casino game of skill and pure luck. The goal is to move your pieces safely around the game board to your home board and at the same time your opposition moves their chips toward their inside board in the opposite direction. With competing player checkers shifting in opposite directions there is bound to be conflict and the need for specific strategies at particular times. Here are the last 2 Backgammon techniques to round out your game.
The Priming Game Strategy
If the aim of the blocking tactic is to slow down the opponent to move their pieces, the Priming Game strategy is to absolutely block any activity of the opponent by constructing a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s pieces will either get hit, or end up in a bad position if he ever tries to escape the wall. The ambush of the prime can be setup anywhere between point 2 and point eleven in your board. As soon as you’ve successfully built the prime to stop the movement of your opponent, your opponent doesn’t even get to roll the dice, and you move your pieces and roll the dice again. You will be a winner for sure.
The Back Game Plan
The objectives of the Back Game technique and the Blocking Game tactic are very similar – to harm your opponent’s positions hoping to improve your chances of succeeding, but the Back Game technique uses alternate techniques to do that. The Back Game technique is often utilized when you are far behind your competitor. To play Backgammon with this strategy, you have to hold 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This tactic is more difficult than others to use in Backgammon because it needs careful movement of your pieces and how the pieces are moved is partially the outcome of the dice roll.