As we dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a game of talent and pure luck. The goal is to shift your pieces safely around the game board to your home board and at the same time your opposing player shifts their chips toward their inside board in the opposite direction. With competing player pieces moving in opposite directions there is bound to be conflict and the requirement for specific tactics at particular times. Here are the two final Backgammon strategies to round out your game.
The Priming Game Plan
If the purpose of the blocking tactic is to hamper the opponents ability to move their pieces, the Priming Game plan is to absolutely barricade any movement of the opponent by building a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s pieces will either get bumped, or end up in a battered position if he ever tries to escape the wall. The ambush of the prime can be established anywhere between point 2 and point 11 in your half of the board. After you’ve successfully constructed the prime to stop the movement of the competitor, your opponent doesn’t even get to toss the dice, and you move your pieces and roll the dice again. You will be a winner for sure.
The Back Game Strategy
The aims of the Back Game technique and the Blocking Game plan are very similar – to hinder your competitor’s positions in hope to boost your odds of succeeding, but the Back Game strategy uses seperate techniques to do that. The Back Game technique is frequently employed when you are far behind your competitor. To participate in Backgammon with this technique, you need to hold 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This tactic is more challenging than others to employ in Backgammon because it requires careful movement of your pieces and how the checkers are relocated is partly the result of the dice toss.
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