As we dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a game of ability and luck. The aim is to shift your pieces carefully around the board to your home board while at the same time your opponent shifts their checkers toward their home board in the opposite direction. With competing player pieces shifting in opposite directions there is going to be conflict and the requirement for particular techniques at specific times. Here are the last two Backgammon strategies to finish off your game.
The Priming Game Strategy
If the goal of the blocking plan is to slow down the opponent to move their chips, the Priming Game tactic is to completely barricade any movement of the opposing player by building 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/she at all tries to leave the wall. The trap of the prime can be built anyplace between point 2 and point eleven in your game board. After you’ve successfully assembled the prime to prevent the activity of your competitor, your opponent doesn’t even get to toss the dice, and you shift your chips and toss the dice yet again. You’ll win the game for sure.
The Back Game Strategy
The objectives of the Back Game technique and the Blocking Game technique are very similar – to harm your competitor’s positions in hope to improve your odds of succeeding, however the Back Game technique uses different tactics to do that. The Back Game tactic is generally used when you’re far behind your competitor. To compete in Backgammon with this technique, you need to control 2 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 because it needs careful movement of your checkers and how the pieces are relocated is partly the result of the dice roll.