As we dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a casino game of skill and good luck. The goal is to shift your checkers safely around the game board to your inside board and at the same time your opposition shifts their chips toward their inner board in the opposite direction. With competing player chips moving in opposite directions there is bound to be conflict and the need for specific techniques at specific times. Here are the last 2 Backgammon techniques to complete your game.
The Priming Game Plan
If the purpose of the blocking plan is to slow down the opponent to move her checkers, the Priming Game tactic is to completely stop any activity of the opponent by constructing a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s pieces will either get hit, or result a bad position if she at all attempts to escape the wall. The ambush of the prime can be established anyplace between point two and point 11 in your half of the board. As soon as you have successfully constructed the prime to prevent the activity of your opponent, the opponent does not even get to toss the dice, and you move your chips and roll the dice again. You’ll win the game for sure.
The Back Game Tactic
The aims of the Back Game strategy and the Blocking Game technique are similar – to harm your opponent’s positions in hope to improve your odds of winning, however the Back Game technique uses seperate tactics to achieve that. The Back Game strategy is frequently used when you’re far behind your competitor. To compete in Backgammon with this plan, you need to control two or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single checker) late in the game. This technique is more complex than others to use in Backgammon seeing as it requires careful movement of your checkers and how the checkers are relocated is partially the result of the dice toss.