As we have dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a casino game of ability and pure luck. The goal is to shift your chips carefully around the board to your home board and at the same time your opposition moves their pieces toward their home board in the opposing direction. With opposing player chips moving in opposing directions there is bound to be conflict and the need for particular strategies at specific instances. Here are the two final Backgammon techniques to complete your game.
The Priming Game Strategy
If the purpose of the blocking plan is to slow down the opponent to shift her chips, the Priming Game strategy is to absolutely barricade any movement of the opposing player by creating a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s chips will either get hit, or result a bad position if he ever attempts to leave the wall. The trap of the prime can be established anyplace between point 2 and point 11 in your board. After you’ve successfully built the prime to stop the movement of your competitor, your opponent doesn’t even get a chance to toss the dice, that means you move your checkers and toss the dice again. You’ll win the game for sure.
The Back Game Plan
The objectives of the Back Game plan and the Blocking Game plan are similar – to hinder your opponent’s positions with hope to boost your chances of winning, but the Back Game strategy utilizes seperate techniques to do that. The Back Game technique is commonly employed when you’re far behind your competitor. To compete in Backgammon with this plan, you need to hold two or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single piece) late in the game. This strategy is more complex than others to play in Backgammon seeing as it requires careful movement of your checkers and how the pieces are relocated is partially the result of the dice toss.
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