As we dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a game of skill and luck. The aim is to shift your chips carefully around the game board to your home board and at the same time your opponent shifts their pieces toward their home board in the opposite direction. With opposing player pieces shifting in opposite directions there is bound to be conflict and the requirement for particular strategies at particular instances. Here are the last 2 Backgammon plans to finish off your game.
The Priming Game Plan
If the goal of the blocking strategy is to hamper the opponents ability to move her chips, the Priming Game plan is to completely block any movement of the opponent by assembling a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s pieces will either get hit, or end up in a battered position if he at all tries to escape the wall. The ambush of the prime can be setup anyplace between point 2 and point eleven in your half of the board. Once you have successfully assembled the prime to stop the movement of the competitor, your opponent does not even get a chance to roll the dice, that means you move your chips and toss the dice again. You will be a winner for sure.
The Back Game Technique
The goals of the Back Game strategy and the Blocking Game technique are very similar – to hurt your competitor’s positions in hope to improve your chances of winning, but the Back Game tactic relies on seperate techniques to achieve that. The Back Game strategy is generally utilized when you are far behind your competitor. To participate in Backgammon with this plan, you have to control 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single piece) late in the game. This tactic is more complex than others to use in Backgammon because it needs careful movement of your chips and how the pieces are moved is partially the outcome of the dice toss.
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