As we dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a game of talent and luck. The goal is to shift your chips safely around the board to your home board and at the same time your opponent moves their checkers toward their home board in the opposite direction. With opposing player chips moving in opposing directions there is bound to be conflict and the need for specific tactics at specific times. Here are the last 2 Backgammon techniques to complete your game.
The Priming Game Strategy
If the aim of the blocking plan is to hamper the opponents ability to shift their checkers, the Priming Game plan is to absolutely barricade any movement of the opponent by constructing a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s chips will either get bumped, or end up in a battered position if she at all attempts to leave the wall. The trap of the prime can be established anyplace between point 2 and point eleven in your board. As soon as you’ve successfully built the prime to block the movement of your competitor, your opponent does not even get a chance to roll the dice, and you shift your checkers and toss the dice yet again. You will be a winner for sure.
The Back Game Plan
The objectives of the Back Game strategy and the Blocking Game technique are very similar – to hurt your opponent’s positions hoping to boost your odds of winning, however the Back Game strategy uses different tactics to achieve that. The Back Game strategy is often employed when you are far behind your opponent. To play Backgammon with this strategy, you have to hold two or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This plan is more complex than others to play in Backgammon seeing as it requires careful movement of your chips and how the chips are relocated is partly the outcome of the dice roll.