As we have dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a game of ability and luck. The goal is to shift your checkers carefully around the game board to your home board and at the same time your opponent moves their pieces toward their home board in the opposing direction. With opposing player chips heading in opposing directions there is going to be conflict and the need for particular strategies at particular times. 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 slow down the opponent to shift her chips, the Priming Game plan is to absolutely block any activity of the opposing player by assembling a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s pieces will either get hit, or end up in a bad position if he/she ever attempts to escape the wall. The trap of the prime can be established anyplace between point 2 and point 11 in your board. As soon as you have successfully assembled the prime to stop the activity of the competitor, the competitor doesn’t even get a chance to roll the dice, and you move your checkers and toss the dice again. You will win the game for sure.
The Back Game Strategy
The goals of the Back Game plan and the Blocking Game technique are similar – to hurt your opponent’s positions in hope to better your chances of winning, but the Back Game plan relies on different techniques to achieve that. The Back Game plan is often used when you are far behind your competitor. To play Backgammon with this strategy, you need to control 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single checker) late in the game. This plan is more challenging than others to play in Backgammon because it needs careful movement of your checkers and how the pieces are moved is partially the result of the dice roll.