As we dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a casino game of skill and pure luck. The goal is to move your pieces carefully around the game board to your inside board while at the same time your opponent moves their checkers toward their home board in the opposite direction. With competing player chips shifting in opposite directions there is going to be conflict and the need for particular techniques at particular instances. Here are the 2 final Backgammon strategies to complete your game.
The Priming Game Tactic
If the purpose of the blocking plan is to slow down the opponent to shift her checkers, the Priming Game strategy is to completely block any activity of the opposing player by creating a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s checkers will either get hit, or end up in a damaged position if he ever tries to leave the wall. The ambush of the prime can be setup anywhere between point two and point eleven in your game board. Once you have successfully assembled the prime to stop the movement of the opponent, the competitor does not even get a chance to roll the dice, that means you move your chips and roll the dice yet again. You’ll win the game for sure.
The Back Game Strategy
The goals of the Back Game technique and the Blocking Game technique are similar – to hinder your competitor’s positions in hope to better your odds of succeeding, however the Back Game tactic uses different tactics to do that. The Back Game tactic is often used when you are far behind your opponent. To compete in Backgammon with this technique, you have to control 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single checker) late in the game. This technique is more challenging than others to employ in Backgammon seeing as it needs careful movement of your chips and how the chips are relocated is partially the result of the dice roll.
