As we have dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a game of skill and pure luck. The goal is to shift your chips safely around the game board to your inner board while at the same time your opposing player moves their pieces toward their inside board in the opposite direction. With competing player checkers heading in opposite directions there is bound to be conflict and the need for particular techniques at specific times. Here are the two final Backgammon strategies to finish off your game.
The Priming Game Plan
If the purpose of the blocking tactic is to hamper the opponents ability to shift her pieces, the Priming Game strategy is to completely stop any movement of the opponent by creating a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s chips will either get hit, or end up in a bad position if she ever tries to leave the wall. The ambush of the prime can be built anywhere between point 2 and point 11 in your board. Once you have successfully assembled the prime to stop the movement of your opponent, your competitor doesn’t even get a chance to roll the dice, that means you shift your chips and toss the dice again. You will win the game for sure.
The Back Game Technique
The aims of the Back Game technique and the Blocking Game plan are similar – to harm your competitor’s positions in hope to improve your chances of winning, but the Back Game technique uses seperate tactics to do that. The Back Game technique is commonly employed when you’re far behind your opponent. To participate in Backgammon with this technique, you need to hold two or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single piece) late in the game. This tactic is more complex than others to employ in Backgammon because it needs careful movement of your pieces and how the checkers are moved is partly the result of the dice toss.