As we dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a casino game of ability and pure luck. The goal is to move your chips carefully around the game board to your home board and at the same time your opponent shifts their chips toward their home board in the opposite direction. With opposing player checkers moving in opposite directions there is going to be conflict and the requirement for specific techniques at specific times. Here are the last two 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 shift her checkers, the Priming Game strategy is to completely block any activity of the opponent by constructing a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s checkers will either get hit, or end up in a battered position if he/she at all attempts to escape the wall. The ambush of the prime can be setup anywhere between point two and point eleven in your board. Once you’ve successfully built the prime to prevent the activity of your competitor, your competitor does not even get to toss the dice, and you move your pieces and roll the dice again. You will win the game for sure.
The Back Game Plan
The objectives of the Back Game technique and the Blocking Game strategy are very similar – to hurt your opponent’s positions in hope to better your odds of succeeding, but the Back Game strategy relies on seperate techniques to achieve that. The Back Game technique is generally utilized when you are far behind your competitor. To participate in Backgammon with this technique, you have to hold two or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single checker) late in the game. This tactic is more difficult than others to play in Backgammon seeing as it requires careful movement of your checkers and how the chips are relocated is partly the result of the dice roll.