As we have dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a casino 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 chips toward their inner board in the opposing direction. With opposing player chips moving in opposite directions there is bound to be conflict and the requirement for specific strategies at particular times. Here are the 2 final Backgammon plans to complete your game.
The Priming Game Strategy
If the purpose of the blocking plan is to hamper the opponents ability to move their pieces, the Priming Game plan is to absolutely block any movement of the opponent by building a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s chips will either get hit, or end up in a bad position if he ever tries to escape the wall. The ambush of the prime can be built anywhere between point 2 and point eleven in your board. Once you have successfully built the prime to block the activity of your competitor, your opponent doesn’t even get to roll the dice, and you move your checkers and roll the dice yet again. You will be a winner for sure.
The Back Game Tactic
The objectives of the Back Game technique and the Blocking Game strategy are very similar – to hurt your competitor’s positions with hope to boost your odds of succeeding, but the Back Game tactic relies on seperate tactics to do that. The Back Game tactic is often used when you are far behind your competitor. To participate in Backgammon with this tactic, you have to control 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single checker) late in the game. This tactic is more difficult than others to play in Backgammon seeing as it needs careful movement of your pieces and how the chips are relocated is partly the result of the dice roll.