As we dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a game of ability and pure luck. The aim is to move your checkers safely around the board to your home board while at the same time your opponent moves their pieces toward their inside board in the opposing direction. With opposing player pieces moving in opposite directions there is bound to be conflict and the need for particular strategies at particular times. Here are the last 2 Backgammon plans to complete your game.
The Priming Game Strategy
If the goal of the blocking tactic is to slow down the opponent to shift her pieces, the Priming Game strategy is to completely barricade 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/she at all attempts to escape the wall. The ambush of the prime can be setup anyplace between point 2 and point eleven in your game board. As soon as you have successfully assembled the prime to block the movement of your competitor, the opponent doesn’t even get to toss the dice, and you move your pieces and toss the dice again. You will be a winner for sure.
The Back Game Plan
The goals of the Back Game strategy and the Blocking Game tactic are similar – to hurt your opponent’s positions with hope to improve your odds of succeeding, however the Back Game technique relies on different tactics to achieve that. The Back Game technique is generally employed when you’re far behind your opponent. To compete in Backgammon with this tactic, 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 checkers and how the checkers are moved is partially the result of the dice toss.