As we dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a game of skill and pure luck. The goal is to shift your chips carefully around the game board to your inner board and at the same time your opposition shifts their chips toward their home board in the opposing direction. With competing player chips heading in opposite directions there is bound to be conflict and the requirement for specific strategies at particular times. Here are the last 2 Backgammon techniques to round out your game.
The Priming Game Strategy
If the goal of the blocking plan is to hamper the opponents ability to shift his chips, the Priming Game plan is to absolutely barricade any movement of the opposing player by creating a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s checkers will either get hit, or end up in a bad position if he ever attempts to escape the wall. The trap of the prime can be setup anywhere between point two and point eleven in your game board. As soon as you have successfully constructed the prime to block the activity of your opponent, your competitor doesn’t even get a chance to toss the dice, and you shift your chips and toss the dice yet again. You will win the game for sure.
The Back Game Tactic
The goals of the Back Game plan and the Blocking Game technique are similar – to hinder your opponent’s positions with hope to boost your odds of winning, however the Back Game plan relies on seperate tactics to achieve that. The Back Game technique is often utilized when you are far behind your competitor. To play Backgammon with this technique, you have to hold two or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single piece) late in the game. This plan is more difficult than others to play in Backgammon seeing as it needs careful movement of your chips and how the checkers are relocated is partly the result of the dice toss.