As we have dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a game of skill and luck. The aim is to move your checkers safely around the game board to your inner board while at the same time your opposition shifts their chips toward their inner board in the opposing direction. With opposing player pieces shifting in opposing directions there is bound to be conflict and the requirement for specific strategies at particular times. Here are the 2 final Backgammon strategies to round out your game.
The Priming Game Tactic
If the purpose of the blocking tactic is to hamper the opponents ability to move her checkers, the Priming Game tactic is to completely stop any movement of the opposing player by constructing a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s pieces will either get hit, or result a battered position if he/she ever attempts to escape the wall. The ambush of the prime can be setup anywhere between point 2 and point eleven in your game board. After you’ve successfully assembled the prime to block the movement of the opponent, the competitor does not even get a chance to roll the dice, that means you move your checkers and roll the dice again. You will win the game for sure.
The Back Game Plan
The objectives of the Back Game technique and the Blocking Game plan are very similar – to hurt your competitor’s positions with hope to better your odds of winning, but the Back Game technique relies on alternate techniques to do that. The Back Game technique is commonly utilized when you are far behind your competitor. To compete in Backgammon with this technique, you have to hold 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This plan is more challenging than others to employ in Backgammon seeing as it requires careful movement of your chips and how the pieces are relocated is partly the result of the dice roll.