As we have dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a casino game of skill and good luck. The aim is to move your checkers safely around the board to your home board and at the same time your opposition shifts their checkers toward their inside board in the opposing direction. With competing player checkers heading in opposing directions there is bound to be conflict and the requirement for specific strategies at specific times. Here are the two final Backgammon techniques to round out your game.
The Priming Game Plan
If the goal of the blocking strategy is to slow down the opponent to move their checkers, the Priming Game tactic is to completely barricade any activity of the opponent by building a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s pieces will either get hit, or end up in a bad position if he/she at all attempts to escape the wall. The trap of the prime can be established anyplace between point two and point eleven in your half of the board. Once you’ve successfully assembled the prime to stop the activity of your competitor, your competitor doesn’t even get to toss the dice, that means you move your checkers and toss the dice yet again. You will win the game for sure.
The Back Game Strategy
The aims of the Back Game strategy and the Blocking Game tactic are very similar – to hinder your opponent’s positions hoping to better your odds of winning, but the Back Game technique utilizes seperate techniques to do that. The Back Game plan is commonly employed when you are far behind your competitor. 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 strategy is more difficult than others to use in Backgammon because it requires careful movement of your checkers and how the chips are relocated is partly the result of the dice roll.
