As we have dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a casino game of ability and pure luck. The goal is to shift your checkers carefully around the game board to your inner board and at the same time your opposing player shifts their chips toward their inside board in the opposing direction. With competing player checkers heading in opposing directions there is bound to be conflict and the requirement for particular strategies at particular times. Here are the 2 final Backgammon plans to finish off your game.
The Priming Game Plan
If the goal of the blocking tactic is to hamper the opponents ability to move her pieces, the Priming Game tactic is to absolutely barricade any movement of the opposing player by constructing a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s pieces will either get hit, or end up in a damaged position if he at all tries to leave the wall. The trap of the prime can be setup anywhere between point 2 and point eleven in your half of the board. Once you have successfully built the prime to block the activity of the opponent, your competitor does not even get a chance to toss the dice, and you shift your pieces and roll the dice yet again. You’ll be a winner for sure.
The Back Game Plan
The objectives of the Back Game technique and the Blocking Game tactic are similar – to hinder your competitor’s positions in hope to better your odds of winning, but the Back Game technique utilizes alternate tactics to do that. The Back Game plan is often used when you are far behind your competitor. To play Backgammon with this strategy, you need to control two or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single checker) late in the game. This technique is more difficult than others to play in Backgammon seeing as it requires careful movement of your checkers and how the pieces are relocated is partly the outcome of the dice roll.