As we dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a casino game of skill and good luck. The aim is to shift your chips safely around the board to your home board and at the same time your opposing player moves their chips toward their home board in the opposite direction. With competing player checkers moving in opposite directions there is going to be conflict and the need for particular tactics at particular instances. Here are the two final Backgammon strategies to round out your game.
The Priming Game Plan
If the aim of the blocking plan is to hamper the opponents ability to shift their checkers, the Priming Game plan is to absolutely block any activity of the opposing player by constructing a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s checkers will either get bumped, or end up in a battered position if he at all attempts to leave the wall. The trap of the prime can be built anywhere between point two and point 11 in your half of the board. As soon as you have successfully constructed the prime to block the activity of your opponent, the opponent doesn’t even get a chance to roll the dice, that means you move your pieces and toss the dice yet again. You’ll be a winner for sure.
The Back Game Plan
The aims of the Back Game technique and the Blocking Game strategy are very similar – to hinder your competitor’s positions in hope to improve your chances of succeeding, however the Back Game strategy utilizes different tactics to achieve that. The Back Game plan is often used when you’re far behind your opponent. To play Backgammon with this tactic, you have to hold two or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This plan is more complex than others to use in Backgammon because it needs careful movement of your chips and how the pieces are moved is partially the outcome of the dice toss.
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