As we have dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a casino game of skill and good luck. The goal is to shift your chips safely around the board to your inner board while at the same time your opponent moves their pieces toward their home board in the opposing direction. With competing player pieces moving in opposite directions there is bound to be conflict and the requirement for specific strategies at particular instances. Here are the last two Backgammon techniques to round out your game.
The Priming Game Plan
If the aim of the blocking plan is to hamper the opponents ability to move her checkers, the Priming Game tactic is to absolutely barricade any activity of the opposing player by assembling a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s checkers will either get bumped, or result a bad position if he ever tries to leave the wall. The trap of the prime can be established anyplace between point 2 and point eleven in your game board. Once you have successfully constructed the prime to prevent the activity of your opponent, your opponent does not even get to roll the dice, and you move your checkers and toss the dice again. You will be a winner for sure.
The Back Game Technique
The objectives of the Back Game plan and the Blocking Game tactic are similar – to harm your competitor’s positions in hope to boost your odds of succeeding, but the Back Game plan utilizes seperate techniques to do that. The Back Game strategy is commonly employed when you’re far behind your opponent. To play Backgammon with this tactic, you have to hold two or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single checker) late in the game. This tactic is more difficult than others to employ in Backgammon seeing as it needs careful movement of your checkers and how the pieces are relocated is partly the result of the dice roll.