As we dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a casino game of talent and luck. The goal is to shift your checkers safely around the board to your inner board and at the same time your opposing player shifts their checkers toward their inside board in the opposite direction. With competing player chips heading in opposite directions there is bound to be conflict and the requirement for particular strategies at specific instances. Here are the two final Backgammon strategies to round out your game.
The Priming Game Plan
If the aim of the blocking plan is to hamper the opponents ability to shift her checkers, the Priming Game strategy is to absolutely block any movement of the opposing player by creating a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s pieces will either get hit, or result a damaged position if he/she ever attempts to escape the wall. The ambush of the prime can be built anyplace between point 2 and point eleven in your board. Once you’ve successfully built the prime to prevent the activity of your competitor, your competitor doesn’t even get a chance to roll the dice, and you move your chips and roll the dice yet again. You will win the game for sure.
The Back Game Tactic
The aims of the Back Game plan and the Blocking Game tactic are very similar – to hinder your competitor’s positions in hope to boost your odds of succeeding, but the Back Game technique uses seperate tactics to achieve that. The Back Game tactic is commonly used when you’re far behind your opponent. To play Backgammon with this technique, you have to hold two or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This technique is more complex than others to play in Backgammon because it needs careful movement of your pieces and how the checkers are moved is partly the outcome of the dice roll.