As we have dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a casino game of talent and pure luck. The goal is to move your chips carefully around the game board to your home board and at the same time your opposition moves their checkers toward their inner board in the opposing direction. With competing player pieces heading in opposite directions there is going to be conflict and the need for specific tactics at specific instances. Here are the last two Backgammon techniques to round out your game.
The Priming Game Plan
If the purpose of the blocking strategy is to hamper the opponents ability to move her pieces, the Priming Game plan is to completely barricade any activity of the opposing player by building a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s checkers will either get hit, or end up in a battered position if she ever tries to escape the wall. The ambush of the prime can be established anywhere between point two and point 11 in your board. After you have successfully built the prime to prevent the activity of your opponent, your competitor doesn’t even get a chance to toss the dice, and you shift your checkers and roll the dice again. You will be a winner for sure.
The Back Game Strategy
The objectives of the Back Game strategy and the Blocking Game plan are similar – to harm your competitor’s positions in hope to better your odds of winning, but the Back Game plan relies on different tactics to achieve that. The Back Game tactic is generally employed when you are far behind your competitor. To participate in Backgammon with this strategy, you need to hold two or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single piece) late in the game. This tactic is more complex than others to use in Backgammon seeing as it requires careful movement of your checkers and how the pieces are moved is partially the result of the dice toss.