As we dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a game of ability and good luck. The goal is to move your pieces carefully around the game board to your inside board while at the same time your opposing player shifts their pieces toward their home board in the opposite direction. With opposing player chips shifting in opposing directions there is bound to be conflict and the requirement for particular strategies at specific times. Here are the last 2 Backgammon plans to round out your game.
The Priming Game Strategy
If the goal of the blocking tactic is to hamper the opponents ability to shift her checkers, the Priming Game strategy is to absolutely block any activity of the opponent by creating a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s pieces will either get bumped, or end up in a battered position if he at all tries to leave the wall. The trap of the prime can be built anywhere between point two and point 11 in your half of the board. Once you have successfully built the prime to block the movement of your opponent, the competitor does not even get a chance to roll the dice, and you move your pieces and roll the dice yet again. You will win the game for sure.
The Back Game Strategy
The aims of the Back Game strategy and the Blocking Game strategy are very similar – to hinder your opponent’s positions in hope to better your chances of winning, but the Back Game strategy utilizes seperate tactics to achieve that. The Back Game technique is frequently employed when you are far behind your opponent. To compete in Backgammon with this technique, you need to hold 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single piece) late in the game. This strategy is more complex than others to play in Backgammon because it needs careful movement of your pieces and how the chips are moved is partially the result of the dice roll.