As we dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a casino game of ability and pure luck. The goal is to move your checkers carefully around the board to your inside board and at the same time your opponent shifts their chips toward their home board in the opposing direction. With opposing player chips moving in opposing directions there is bound to be conflict and the requirement for particular tactics at specific times. Here are the last 2 Backgammon strategies to round out your game.
The Priming Game Tactic
If the goal of the blocking strategy is to hamper the opponents ability to move her pieces, the Priming Game strategy is to completely block any movement of the opponent by creating a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s chips will either get bumped, or result a battered position if he/she ever attempts to escape the wall. The trap of the prime can be established anyplace between point 2 and point eleven in your game board. As soon as you’ve successfully built the prime to block the movement of the opponent, your opponent doesn’t even get a chance to toss the dice, and you move your pieces and toss the dice yet again. You will win the game for sure.
The Back Game Technique
The objectives of the Back Game strategy and the Blocking Game technique are very similar – to hurt your opponent’s positions with hope to boost your odds of succeeding, but the Back Game tactic uses different tactics to achieve that. The Back Game plan is often utilized when you are far behind your opponent. To compete in Backgammon with this tactic, you need to control two or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single checker) late in the game. This plan is more complex than others to use in Backgammon seeing as it requires careful movement of your chips and how the pieces are moved is partially the outcome of the dice roll.