As we dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a casino game of ability and luck. The aim is to shift your checkers carefully around the board to your inner board and at the same time your opposition shifts their pieces toward their home board in the opposite direction. With competing player checkers heading in opposing directions there is bound to be conflict and the requirement for specific techniques at particular instances. Here are the 2 final Backgammon techniques to complete your game.
The Priming Game Strategy
If the goal of the blocking strategy is to hamper the opponents ability to move his pieces, the Priming Game strategy is to completely block any activity of the opponent by creating a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s pieces will either get hit, or result a battered position if she at all tries to escape the wall. The trap of the prime can be built anywhere between point two and point eleven in your board. As soon as you’ve successfully built the prime to block the activity of your competitor, the competitor doesn’t even get to toss the dice, that means you shift your checkers and toss the dice again. You’ll win the game for sure.
The Back Game Plan
The aims of the Back Game plan and the Blocking Game technique are very similar – to hinder your competitor’s positions hoping to better your odds of winning, however the Back Game technique relies on alternate tactics to do that. The Back Game technique is often utilized when you are far behind your opponent. To compete in Backgammon with this technique, you need to hold two or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single piece) late in the game. This tactic is more difficult 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 toss.