As we dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a casino game of ability and good luck. The goal is to move your chips safely around the game board to your inner board while at the same time your opponent moves their pieces toward their home board in the opposing direction. With opposing player checkers moving in opposing directions there is going to be conflict and the need for specific techniques at specific times. Here are the last 2 Backgammon strategies to finish off your game.
The Priming Game Tactic
If the purpose of the blocking plan is to hamper the opponents ability to shift their checkers, the Priming Game strategy is to completely block any activity of the opposing player by constructing a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s checkers will either get hit, or result a bad position if he/she ever tries to escape the wall. The trap of the prime can be setup anyplace between point 2 and point eleven in your half of the board. Once you’ve successfully assembled the prime to block the movement of your competitor, the opponent does not even get a chance to roll the dice, that means you shift your checkers and roll the dice again. You’ll be a winner for sure.
The Back Game Strategy
The goals of the Back Game tactic and the Blocking Game tactic are very similar – to hinder your opponent’s positions hoping to better your odds of winning, but the Back Game plan relies on alternate techniques to achieve that. The Back Game strategy is commonly used when you’re far behind your competitor. To play Backgammon with this technique, you need to control two or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single checker) late in the game. This technique is more complex than others to use in Backgammon seeing as it requires careful movement of your pieces and how the pieces are moved is partly the result of the dice toss.