As we have dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a casino game of ability and pure luck. The aim is to shift your chips safely around the board to your home board and at the same time your opposition shifts their pieces toward their inner board in the opposite direction. With competing player chips shifting in opposing directions there is bound to be conflict and the need for particular strategies at particular times. Here are the two final Backgammon techniques to complete your game.
The Priming Game Plan
If the goal of the blocking plan is to hamper the opponents ability to shift their chips, the Priming Game strategy 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 battered position if she at all tries to leave the wall. The ambush of the prime can be setup anyplace between point 2 and point eleven in your board. Once you’ve successfully constructed the prime to block the movement of your competitor, the competitor doesn’t even get to roll the dice, that means you shift your checkers and toss the dice yet again. You’ll be a winner for sure.
The Back Game Plan
The goals of the Back Game tactic and the Blocking Game plan are similar – to hurt your opponent’s positions in hope to better your chances of succeeding, however the Back Game technique relies on alternate techniques to do that. The Back Game tactic is frequently used when you are far behind your opponent. To participate in Backgammon with this strategy, you have to hold 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This tactic is more complex than others to play in Backgammon because it needs careful movement of your checkers and how the checkers are moved is partly the result of the dice roll.