As we have dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a game of skill and good luck. The aim is to shift your pieces carefully around the board to your inside board while at the same time your opposing player shifts their chips toward their inside board in the opposite direction. With competing player checkers moving in opposite directions there is going to be conflict and the requirement for particular techniques at particular instances. Here are the last 2 Backgammon strategies to finish off your game.
The Priming Game Tactic
If the goal of the blocking tactic is to hamper the opponents ability to move her chips, the Priming Game strategy is to completely barricade any movement of the opponent by building a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s checkers will either get hit, or end up in a battered position if he at all tries to escape the wall. The trap of the prime can be built anyplace between point two and point eleven in your game board. Once you’ve successfully assembled the prime to prevent the movement of your opponent, the opponent doesn’t even get a chance to roll the dice, that means you shift your pieces and roll the dice again. You will win the game for sure.
The Back Game Strategy
The objectives of the Back Game tactic and the Blocking Game tactic are similar – to hurt your opponent’s positions with hope to improve your odds of succeeding, but the Back Game tactic relies on alternate tactics to do that. The Back Game plan is commonly used when you are far behind your opponent. To participate in Backgammon with this plan, you need to hold two or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This plan is more difficult than others to employ in Backgammon because it needs careful movement of your chips and how the checkers are moved is partly the outcome of the dice toss.