As we have dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a casino game of ability and good luck. The aim is to shift your checkers carefully around the game board to your inner board while at the same time your opposition shifts their pieces toward their home board in the opposing direction. With competing player chips shifting in opposing directions there is going to be conflict and the need for specific strategies at specific times. Here are the last two Backgammon tactics to round out your game.
The Priming Game Plan
If the goal of the blocking plan is to hamper the opponents ability to move their chips, the Priming Game tactic is to absolutely stop any movement of the opposing player by assembling a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s checkers will either get hit, or end up in a battered position if she at all tries to leave the wall. The trap of the prime can be built anyplace between point two and point eleven in your board. Once you’ve successfully constructed the prime to stop the movement of your competitor, the competitor does not even get a chance to roll the dice, and you move your pieces and roll the dice again. You’ll be a winner for sure.
The Back Game Strategy
The goals of the Back Game tactic and the Blocking Game technique are very similar – to harm your competitor’s positions in hope to improve your odds of succeeding, however the Back Game technique uses alternate techniques to do that. The Back Game tactic is commonly utilized when you’re far behind your competitor. To play Backgammon with this plan, you have to hold 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This technique is more difficult than others to use in Backgammon because it needs careful movement of your pieces and how the pieces are relocated is partially the result of the dice toss.