As we dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a casino game of talent and pure luck. The aim is to move your checkers carefully around the game board to your inside board while at the same time your opposing player moves their checkers toward their inside board in the opposite direction. With opposing player checkers moving in opposing directions there is bound to be conflict and the need for specific techniques at specific instances. Here are the 2 final Backgammon plans to round out your game.
The Priming Game Tactic
If the goal of the blocking strategy is to hamper the opponents ability to move his pieces, the Priming Game tactic is to absolutely block any activity of the opposing player by constructing a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s pieces will either get bumped, or result a bad position if he/she ever attempts to leave the wall. The ambush of the prime can be setup anywhere between point two and point 11 in your game board. Once you have successfully built the prime to block the movement of your competitor, your competitor does not even get a chance 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 aims of the Back Game strategy and the Blocking Game technique are very similar – to harm your competitor’s positions with hope to improve your chances of winning, but the Back Game strategy relies on alternate techniques to do that. The Back Game plan is commonly utilized when you are far behind your opponent. To compete in Backgammon with this tactic, you have to control two or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single piece) late in the game. This technique is more difficult than others to play in Backgammon because it requires careful movement of your pieces and how the pieces are moved is partly the result of the dice roll.