As we dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a casino game of talent and luck. The aim is to move your pieces safely around the game board to your inner board while at the same time your opponent moves their chips toward their inner board in the opposite direction. With opposing player pieces shifting in opposite directions there is bound to be conflict and the requirement for specific strategies at specific instances. Here are the 2 final Backgammon techniques to finish off your game.
The Priming Game Plan
If the goal of the blocking strategy is to slow down the opponent to move their pieces, the Priming Game tactic is to absolutely block any movement 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 battered position if she ever attempts to escape the wall. The ambush of the prime can be built anyplace between point two and point 11 in your half of the board. Once you’ve successfully constructed the prime to stop the activity of your competitor, your opponent does not even get to toss the dice, that means you move your chips and toss the dice yet again. You’ll be a winner for sure.
The Back Game Tactic
The goals of the Back Game technique and the Blocking Game technique are very similar – to hurt your competitor’s positions in hope to better your odds of succeeding, but the Back Game technique relies on seperate tactics to achieve that. The Back Game strategy is commonly used when you are far behind your opponent. To compete in Backgammon with this strategy, you have to hold two or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single piece) late in the game. This plan is more difficult than others to play in Backgammon because it needs careful movement of your chips and how the chips are moved is partly the outcome of the dice roll.