As we have dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a casino game of talent and good luck. The goal is to move your chips carefully around the board to your inside board while at the same time your opponent moves their chips toward their inner board in the opposing direction. With competing player checkers moving in opposite directions there is going to be conflict and the need for particular techniques at particular instances. Here are the last 2 Backgammon plans to finish off your game.
The Priming Game Tactic
If the aim of the blocking strategy is to slow down the opponent to move his checkers, the Priming Game strategy is to completely block any movement of the opposing player by assembling a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s pieces will either get bumped, or result a bad position if he/she ever tries to leave the wall. The trap of the prime can be built anyplace between point 2 and point 11 in your board. Once you’ve successfully built the prime to stop the movement of the opponent, your opponent doesn’t even get a chance to roll the dice, that means you move your checkers and toss the dice again. You’ll win the game for sure.
The Back Game Technique
The goals of the Back Game plan and the Blocking Game strategy are very similar – to harm your opponent’s positions in hope to improve your odds of succeeding, but the Back Game strategy relies on different techniques to achieve that. The Back Game tactic is often used when you are far behind your opponent. To play Backgammon with this tactic, you need to control two or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single piece) late in the game. This technique is more complex than others to employ in Backgammon because it needs careful movement of your checkers and how the checkers are relocated is partly the outcome of the dice toss.