As we dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a casino game of skill and luck. The aim is to move your chips carefully around the board to your inner board while at the same time your opposing player shifts their checkers toward their home board in the opposite direction. With competing player checkers moving in opposite directions there is bound to be conflict and the requirement for specific tactics at specific times. Here are the last two Backgammon strategies to round out your game.
The Priming Game Tactic
If the aim of the blocking plan is to hamper the opponents ability to shift her chips, the Priming Game strategy is to absolutely stop any activity of the opposing player by assembling a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s pieces will either get hit, or result a bad position if he/she at all attempts to escape the wall. The ambush of the prime can be built anyplace between point two and point eleven in your game board. As soon as you have successfully built the prime to block the movement of the competitor, your competitor doesn’t even get to toss the dice, that means you move your pieces and roll the dice again. You’ll win the game for sure.
The Back Game Strategy
The goals of the Back Game strategy and the Blocking Game strategy are similar – to hurt your competitor’s positions in hope to improve your odds of winning, however the Back Game plan relies on alternate techniques to achieve that. The Back Game plan is generally utilized when you are far behind your opponent. To compete in Backgammon with this strategy, you need to control two or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This plan is more difficult than others to use in Backgammon seeing as it needs careful movement of your chips and how the chips are moved is partly the outcome of the dice toss.
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