As we dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a game of ability and luck. The goal is to shift your checkers carefully around the board to your inner board and at the same time your opposing player moves their chips toward their inner board in the opposite direction. With competing player chips heading in opposite directions there is bound to be conflict and the requirement for specific tactics at particular instances. Here are the last two Backgammon techniques to complete your game.
The Priming Game Plan
If the goal of the blocking strategy is to slow down the opponent to shift their checkers, the Priming Game plan is to completely stop 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 end up in a damaged position if he/she ever attempts to leave the wall. The ambush of the prime can be built anyplace between point 2 and point eleven in your half of the board. As soon as you’ve successfully assembled the prime to stop the activity of the opponent, the opponent does not even get a chance to roll the dice, and you move your chips and roll the dice yet again. You’ll be a winner for sure.
The Back Game Strategy
The objectives of the Back Game plan and the Blocking Game plan are similar – to hinder your competitor’s positions with hope to improve your odds of succeeding, however the Back Game strategy utilizes different techniques to do that. The Back Game strategy is generally used when you’re far behind your opponent. To play Backgammon with this strategy, you need to hold two or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This plan is more difficult than others to play in Backgammon seeing as it needs careful movement of your chips and how the chips are moved is partly the outcome of the dice toss.
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