As we have dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a game of ability and luck. The goal is to move your chips safely around the game board to your home board and at the same time your opposition shifts their pieces toward their home board in the opposing direction. With competing player chips shifting in opposite directions there is bound to be conflict and the requirement for particular techniques at specific times. Here are the 2 final Backgammon plans to finish off your game.
The Priming Game Plan
If the purpose of the blocking tactic is to hamper the opponents ability to move his checkers, the Priming Game tactic is to completely block any activity of the opponent by constructing a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s pieces will either get hit, or result a bad position if he/she ever tries to escape the wall. The trap of the prime can be established anyplace between point 2 and point eleven in your half of the board. After you have successfully assembled the prime to block the activity of the opponent, your competitor does not even get a chance to roll the dice, and you shift your pieces and toss the dice again. You will be a winner for sure.
The Back Game Technique
The goals of the Back Game tactic and the Blocking Game strategy are very similar – to hurt your opponent’s positions in hope to improve your chances of succeeding, but the Back Game tactic relies on seperate techniques to do that. The Back Game technique is often utilized when you’re far behind your competitor. To play Backgammon with this strategy, you need to control 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single piece) late in the game. This technique is more complex than others to employ in Backgammon seeing as it requires careful movement of your chips and how the pieces are relocated is partly the result of the dice toss.
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