As we have dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a casino game of skill and pure luck. The goal is to shift your pieces carefully around the board to your home board while at the same time your opposition moves their pieces toward their home board in the opposing direction. With opposing player chips shifting in opposing directions there is going to be conflict and the need for particular techniques at particular times. Here are the 2 final Backgammon strategies to finish off your game.
The Priming Game Strategy
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 activity of the opponent by creating a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s chips will either get hit, or end up in a battered position if he/she ever 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. After you have successfully constructed the prime to block the activity of your competitor, the competitor does not even get a chance to toss the dice, that means you shift your pieces and roll the dice again. You will be a winner for sure.
The Back Game Strategy
The objectives of the Back Game tactic and the Blocking Game technique are very similar – to hurt your opponent’s positions hoping to boost your odds of succeeding, but the Back Game technique utilizes seperate tactics to achieve that. The Back Game technique is frequently utilized when you’re far behind your opponent. To play Backgammon with this tactic, you have to control 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single piece) late in the game. This technique is more challenging than others to employ in Backgammon seeing as it requires careful movement of your checkers and how the checkers are moved is partly the outcome of the dice roll.