As we have dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a casino game of skill and good luck. The aim is to move your chips safely around the board to your home board while at the same time your opposition shifts their pieces toward their inner board in the opposite direction. With competing player chips shifting in opposing directions there is going to be conflict and the need for specific tactics at particular times. Here are the two final Backgammon techniques to finish off your game.
The Priming Game Strategy
If the purpose of the blocking plan is to hamper the opponents ability to move their chips, the Priming Game plan is to absolutely stop any activity of the opposing player by assembling a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s pieces will either get bumped, or end up in a bad position if she ever attempts to leave the wall. The ambush of the prime can be setup anywhere between point 2 and point eleven in your game board. Once you’ve successfully assembled the prime to stop the activity of your competitor, your opponent does not even get a chance to roll the dice, and you shift your checkers and roll the dice again. You will be a winner for sure.
The Back Game Plan
The objectives of the Back Game plan and the Blocking Game tactic are very similar – to hinder your competitor’s positions in hope to boost your odds of winning, however the Back Game plan utilizes alternate techniques to achieve that. The Back Game strategy is commonly employed when you are far behind your opponent. To play Backgammon with this technique, you need to control 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This plan is more complex than others to employ in Backgammon because it needs careful movement of your checkers and how the chips are moved is partly the outcome of the dice toss.