As we have dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a game of talent and pure luck. The goal is to shift your pieces safely around the board to your inside board and at the same time your opponent moves their checkers toward their inside board in the opposite direction. With competing player chips shifting in opposing directions there is bound to be conflict and the requirement for particular strategies at particular times. Here are the last 2 Backgammon techniques to round out your game.
The Priming Game Strategy
If the purpose of the blocking strategy is to slow down the opponent to move his chips, the Priming Game plan is to completely block any activity of the opponent by building a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s chips will either get bumped, or result a battered position if she at all attempts to leave the wall. The trap of the prime can be built anyplace between point two and point eleven in your half of the board. As soon as you’ve successfully constructed the prime to block the movement of your opponent, your opponent does not even get to toss the dice, and you shift your checkers and roll the dice yet again. You’ll win the game for sure.
The Back Game Plan
The goals of the Back Game strategy and the Blocking Game strategy are very similar – to harm your opponent’s positions with hope to boost your odds of winning, but the Back Game tactic uses seperate techniques to do that. The Back Game tactic is often utilized when you are far behind your competitor. To participate in Backgammon with this strategy, you need to control 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This tactic is more complex than others to use in Backgammon because it needs careful movement of your pieces and how the checkers are moved is partially the result of the dice roll.