As we dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a casino game of skill and good luck. The aim is to move your checkers safely around the game board to your inner board while at the same time your opposing player moves their pieces toward their inner board in the opposite direction. With opposing player checkers moving in opposing directions there is going to be conflict and the need for particular techniques at particular times. Here are the 2 final Backgammon techniques to round out your game.
The Priming Game Plan
If the aim of the blocking plan is to slow down the opponent to move their pieces, the Priming Game strategy is to completely barricade any activity of the opponent by constructing a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s chips will either get hit, or end up in a bad position if he at all tries to escape the wall. The trap of the prime can be setup anywhere between point 2 and point eleven in your board. As soon as you have successfully assembled the prime to block the activity of the opponent, the competitor does not even get a chance to toss the dice, that means you shift your pieces and toss the dice again. You’ll be a winner for sure.
The Back Game Plan
The goals of the Back Game technique and the Blocking Game tactic are similar – to harm your competitor’s positions in hope to boost your odds of succeeding, but the Back Game plan uses alternate tactics to achieve that. The Back Game strategy is frequently employed when you are far behind your opponent. To compete in Backgammon with this strategy, you have to control two or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single piece) late in the game. This technique is more complex than others to employ in Backgammon seeing as it requires careful movement of your pieces and how the pieces are relocated is partly the result of the dice roll.