As we have dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a game of talent and luck. The goal is to shift your checkers safely around the board to your inside board while at the same time your opposition moves their chips toward their home board in the opposing direction. With competing player pieces moving in opposite directions there is going to be conflict and the need for specific strategies at particular instances. Here are the last two Backgammon techniques to round out your game.
The Priming Game Strategy
If the goal of the blocking strategy is to slow down the opponent to move her checkers, the Priming Game plan is to completely block any movement of the opponent by creating a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s pieces will either get hit, or result a bad position if he/she ever tries to leave the wall. The ambush of the prime can be built anyplace between point two and point eleven in your board. Once you have successfully assembled the prime to prevent the activity of the competitor, your competitor does not even get to toss the dice, and you shift your chips and toss the dice again. You’ll be a winner for sure.
The Back Game Tactic
The goals of the Back Game plan and the Blocking Game technique are very similar – to harm your competitor’s positions hoping to improve your odds of winning, but the Back Game tactic utilizes alternate tactics to achieve that. The Back Game strategy is frequently used when you are far behind your competitor. To participate in Backgammon with this technique, you need to control 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This plan is more challenging than others to use in Backgammon seeing as it requires careful movement of your chips and how the pieces are moved is partly the result of the dice roll.