As we dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a casino game of skill and good luck. The aim is to move your checkers safely around the board to your inside board and at the same time your opposition moves their pieces toward their inner board in the opposing direction. With competing player checkers shifting in opposite directions there is bound to be conflict and the need for specific strategies at particular times. Here are the last two Backgammon strategies to finish off your game.
The Priming Game Strategy
If the goal of the blocking plan is to slow down the opponent to shift their chips, the Priming Game tactic is to completely block any movement of the opposing player by building a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s chips will either get bumped, or end up in a battered position if he ever attempts to leave the wall. The trap of the prime can be built anyplace between point two and point eleven in your board. Once you’ve successfully built the prime to block the activity of your competitor, your competitor doesn’t even get to toss the dice, and you shift your chips and toss the dice again. You will win the game for sure.
The Back Game Strategy
The objectives of the Back Game plan and the Blocking Game technique are very similar – to hurt your competitor’s positions in hope to boost your chances of succeeding, but the Back Game tactic utilizes alternate tactics to achieve that. The Back Game strategy is often used when you are far behind your opponent. To participate in Backgammon with this tactic, you need to hold two or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This plan is more complex than others to employ in Backgammon because it requires careful movement of your pieces and how the pieces are relocated is partially the outcome of the dice roll.