As we dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a casino game of ability and luck. The goal is to move your checkers carefully around the board to your home board while at the same time your opposition shifts their checkers toward their inside board in the opposing direction. With competing player checkers shifting in opposing directions there is bound to be conflict and the requirement for specific strategies at specific times. Here are the last two Backgammon plans to finish off your game.
The Priming Game Tactic
If the goal of the blocking tactic is to slow down the opponent to shift his checkers, the Priming Game strategy is to completely block any activity of the opposing player by building a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s chips will either get bumped, or end up in a battered position if she ever attempts to leave the wall. The ambush of the prime can be established anywhere between point two and point 11 in your board. As soon as you’ve successfully built the prime to block the activity of your opponent, your competitor does not even get a chance to roll the dice, and you move your chips and toss the dice yet again. You will win the game for sure.
The Back Game Technique
The objectives of the Back Game strategy and the Blocking Game strategy are very similar – to hurt your competitor’s positions in hope to improve your chances of winning, however the Back Game strategy utilizes seperate tactics to do that. The Back Game tactic is often utilized when you are far behind your competitor. To compete in Backgammon with this technique, you need to control two or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This strategy is more challenging than others to employ in Backgammon because it requires careful movement of your checkers and how the chips are moved is partly the result of the dice toss.
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