As we dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a game of skill and luck. The aim is to shift your pieces safely around the game board to your inside board and at the same time your opposition shifts their chips toward their inside board in the opposing direction. With competing player chips moving in opposing directions there is going to be conflict and the need for specific strategies at particular instances. Here are the two final Backgammon techniques to finish off your game.
The Priming Game Plan
If the purpose of the blocking plan is to hamper the opponents ability to move her 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 opponent’s checkers will either get bumped, or end up in a damaged position if she ever attempts to escape the wall. The trap of the prime can be built anywhere between point two and point 11 in your board. As soon as you’ve successfully built the prime to prevent the activity of your competitor, your competitor does not even get to toss the dice, and you shift your checkers and roll the dice again. You will be a winner for sure.
The Back Game Technique
The aims of the Back Game tactic and the Blocking Game technique are very similar – to hinder your competitor’s positions with hope to boost your odds of winning, however the Back Game tactic utilizes seperate tactics to achieve that. The Back Game strategy is often utilized when you are far behind your opponent. To play Backgammon with this strategy, you need to hold 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single piece) late in the game. This strategy is more challenging than others to use in Backgammon because it needs careful movement of your checkers and how the chips are moved is partially the result of the dice toss.
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