As we have dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a casino game of skill and pure luck. The goal is to shift your pieces carefully around the board to your inside board while at the same time your opponent moves their chips toward their inner board in the opposite direction. With competing player pieces moving in opposing directions there is bound to be conflict and the need for specific tactics at particular times. Here are the two final Backgammon strategies to finish off your game.
The Priming Game Strategy
If the goal of the blocking tactic is to slow down the opponent to move her chips, the Priming Game plan is to completely block any activity of the opposing player by assembling a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s chips will either get bumped, or result a battered position if she ever attempts to leave the wall. The ambush of the prime can be built anyplace between point two and point 11 in your half of the board. As soon as you have successfully constructed the prime to stop the movement of the opponent, your competitor doesn’t even get a chance to roll the dice, and you shift your chips and roll the dice yet again. You will be a winner for sure.
The Back Game Strategy
The aims of the Back Game technique and the Blocking Game technique are very similar – to hinder your competitor’s positions in hope to improve your odds of winning, however the Back Game strategy relies on seperate techniques to do that. The Back Game plan is generally used when you’re far behind your opponent. To participate in Backgammon with this plan, you have to control two or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single checker) late in the game. This strategy is more complex than others to use in Backgammon because it needs careful movement of your checkers and how the checkers are moved is partly the result of the dice roll.
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