As we have dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a game of ability and good luck. The goal is to move your chips carefully around the board to your inside board and at the same time your opponent moves their chips toward their inside board in the opposite direction. With competing player chips shifting in opposite directions there is bound to be conflict and the need for specific techniques at specific times. Here are the last two Backgammon strategies to finish off your game.
The Priming Game Tactic
If the goal of the blocking plan is to slow down the opponent to move his pieces, the Priming Game strategy is to absolutely block any movement of the opposing player by building a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s pieces will either get bumped, or result a battered position if he ever attempts to leave the wall. The trap of the prime can be built anywhere between point two and point eleven in your board. As soon as you’ve successfully constructed the prime to block the activity of your competitor, the opponent doesn’t even get a chance to toss the dice, that means you move your checkers and toss the dice again. You will win the game for sure.
The Back Game Plan
The goals of the Back Game tactic and the Blocking Game plan are similar – to hinder your competitor’s positions in hope to boost your chances of succeeding, but the Back Game technique uses different techniques to achieve that. The Back Game plan is commonly used when you’re far behind your opponent. To play Backgammon with this strategy, you need to hold 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This strategy is more challenging than others to use in Backgammon seeing as it needs careful movement of your checkers and how the pieces are relocated is partially the outcome of the dice toss.