As we have dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a casino game of skill and pure luck. The aim is to move your pieces safely around the board to your inner board and at the same time your opposition shifts their checkers toward their inner board in the opposite direction. With opposing player pieces heading in opposite directions there is going to be conflict and the requirement for particular strategies at specific times. Here are the last two Backgammon strategies to round out your game.
The Priming Game Tactic
If the aim of the blocking plan is to hamper the opponents ability to shift his chips, the Priming Game strategy is to absolutely barricade any activity of the opponent by creating a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s checkers will either get hit, or end up in a bad position if she ever attempts to leave the wall. The trap of the prime can be built anyplace between point two and point 11 in your board. As soon as you have successfully built the prime to stop the movement of your opponent, your competitor doesn’t even get a chance to toss the dice, that means you shift your pieces and roll the dice yet again. You will be a winner for sure.
The Back Game Tactic
The goals of the Back Game strategy and the Blocking Game tactic are very similar – to hinder your competitor’s positions hoping to better your odds of succeeding, but the Back Game tactic uses different tactics to do that. The Back Game plan is often employed when you’re far behind your competitor. To play Backgammon with this plan, you need to hold 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This technique is more difficult than others to use in Backgammon seeing as it requires careful movement of your checkers and how the checkers are relocated is partly the outcome of the dice toss.