As we have dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a game of ability and pure luck. The aim is to shift your chips safely around the board to your home board while at the same time your opposing player moves their checkers toward their home board in the opposing direction. With opposing player chips moving in opposite directions there is bound to be conflict and the need for specific techniques at specific times. Here are the 2 final Backgammon plans to complete your game.
The Priming Game Strategy
If the aim of the blocking plan is to hamper the opponents ability to shift his pieces, the Priming Game tactic is to absolutely barricade any movement of the opponent by building a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s chips will either get hit, or end up in a battered position if he/she ever attempts to leave the wall. The ambush of the prime can be setup anyplace between point two and point eleven in your half of the board. As soon as you’ve successfully built the prime to block the movement of the competitor, the opponent does not even get a chance to toss the dice, and you move your chips and roll the dice yet again. You’ll be a winner for sure.
The Back Game Technique
The goals of the Back Game tactic and the Blocking Game tactic are similar – to harm your opponent’s positions in hope to improve your odds of succeeding, but the Back Game plan relies on different techniques to do that. The Back Game tactic is frequently used when you are far behind your competitor. To play Backgammon with this strategy, you have to control two or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This strategy is more difficult than others to play in Backgammon seeing as it requires careful movement of your chips and how the checkers are relocated is partially the result of the dice toss.