As we have dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a game of talent and good luck. The aim is to shift your chips safely around the game board to your home board and at the same time your opponent shifts their pieces toward their inner board in the opposing direction. With opposing player chips heading in opposing directions there is going to be conflict and the requirement for specific strategies at specific instances. Here are the 2 final Backgammon techniques to round out your game.
The Priming Game Strategy
If the aim of the blocking strategy is to slow down the opponent to shift her chips, the Priming Game plan is to absolutely block any movement of the opponent by creating a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s chips will either get hit, or end up in a damaged position if he/she at all tries to leave the wall. The trap of the prime can be setup anywhere between point two and point eleven in your board. After you have successfully constructed the prime to stop the movement of your opponent, your opponent does not even get to toss the dice, that means you shift your checkers and roll the dice yet again. You’ll win the game for sure.
The Back Game Tactic
The aims of the Back Game technique and the Blocking Game tactic are similar – to hurt your competitor’s positions with hope to improve your odds of winning, however the Back Game strategy uses seperate tactics to achieve that. The Back Game plan is often utilized when you are far behind your competitor. To participate in Backgammon with this tactic, you have to hold two or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This technique is more complex than others to employ in Backgammon seeing as it requires careful movement of your checkers and how the checkers are relocated is partially the outcome of the dice roll.