As we have dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a game of ability and good luck. The goal is to move your checkers safely around the game board to your inner board and at the same time your opponent shifts 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 requirement for specific strategies at particular times. Here are the two final Backgammon plans to complete 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 tactic is to absolutely stop any movement of the opponent by creating a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s chips will either get hit, or end up in a bad position if she ever attempts to leave the wall. The ambush of the prime can be setup anyplace between point 2 and point 11 in your board. Once you have successfully built the prime to stop the activity of your opponent, your competitor does not even get to toss the dice, and you move your checkers and roll the dice yet again. You’ll be a winner for sure.
The Back Game Strategy
The aims of the Back Game technique and the Blocking Game plan are similar – to harm your competitor’s positions in hope to better your chances of winning, but the Back Game plan uses seperate techniques to do that. The Back Game plan is often used when you’re far behind your competitor. 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 plan is more difficult than others to employ in Backgammon because it requires careful movement of your pieces and how the checkers are moved is partly the outcome of the dice toss.
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