As we have dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a game of skill and good luck. The aim is to move your checkers carefully around the game board to your home board while at the same time your opposing player shifts their pieces toward their home board in the opposite direction. With opposing player chips moving in opposing directions there is going to be conflict and the requirement for specific strategies at particular instances. Here are the two final Backgammon techniques to round out your game.
The Priming Game Tactic
If the aim of the blocking strategy is to slow down the opponent to shift their pieces, the Priming Game strategy is to absolutely barricade any activity of the opposing player by building a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s checkers will either get hit, or result a battered position if she at all tries to leave the wall. The ambush of the prime can be built anyplace between point 2 and point 11 in your board. After you have successfully constructed the prime to block the activity of the competitor, the opponent doesn’t even get to roll the dice, and you shift your chips and toss the dice again. You will be a winner for sure.
The Back Game Tactic
The aims of the Back Game technique and the Blocking Game tactic are similar – to harm your competitor’s positions in hope to better your odds of succeeding, however the Back Game plan relies on seperate techniques to do that. The Back Game plan is generally used when you’re far behind your competitor. To participate in Backgammon with this strategy, you have to hold two or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single piece) late in the game. This tactic is more challenging than others to use in Backgammon because it needs careful movement of your chips and how the checkers are moved is partly the outcome of the dice toss.