As we have dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a casino game of ability and luck. The aim is to shift your checkers safely around the game board to your inner board and at the same time your opposing player moves their checkers toward their inside board in the opposing direction. With competing player pieces moving in opposing directions there is going to be conflict and the requirement for specific tactics at particular times. Here are the last 2 Backgammon strategies to complete your game.
The Priming Game Strategy
If the purpose of the blocking strategy is to slow down the opponent to move his checkers, the Priming Game tactic is to completely barricade any movement of the opposing player by creating a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s chips will either get hit, or result a bad position if he at all attempts to escape the wall. The ambush of the prime can be setup anyplace between point 2 and point eleven in your half of the board. After you have successfully assembled the prime to block the movement of your competitor, your opponent doesn’t even get to toss the dice, that means you move your pieces and roll the dice again. You will win the game for sure.
The Back Game Strategy
The aims of the Back Game plan and the Blocking Game plan are similar – to hinder your opponent’s positions hoping to boost your chances of winning, however the Back Game plan uses alternate techniques to do that. The Back Game technique is commonly used when you’re far behind your opponent. To compete in Backgammon with this technique, you need to hold 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single checker) late in the game. This plan is more difficult than others to play in Backgammon seeing as it requires careful movement of your pieces and how the pieces are moved is partly the result of the dice toss.