As we have dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a game of skill and pure luck. The goal is to move your chips safely around the game board to your home board while at the same time your opponent shifts their pieces toward their home board in the opposite direction. With opposing player pieces heading in opposing directions there is going to be conflict and the requirement for specific strategies at specific instances. Here are the last 2 Backgammon strategies to round out your game.
The Priming Game Strategy
If the aim of the blocking tactic is to slow down the opponent to shift their chips, the Priming Game tactic is to completely block any activity of the opponent by building a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s pieces will either get hit, or end up in a battered position if she at all tries to escape the wall. The trap of the prime can be setup anyplace between point two and point eleven in your half of the. As soon as you’ve successfully constructed the prime to block the movement of the competitor, your competitor does not even get to toss the dice, that means you move your pieces and roll the dice again. You will win the game for sure.
The Back Game Strategy
The aims of the Back Game tactic and the Blocking Game tactic are similar – to hinder your competitor’s positions with hope to better your chances of winning, but the Back Game strategy uses seperate techniques to achieve that. The Back Game technique is frequently used when you are far behind your competitor. 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 strategy is more complex than others to employ in Backgammon because it needs careful movement of your pieces and how the pieces are relocated is partly the outcome of the dice toss.
