As we have dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a casino game of ability and luck. The aim is to shift your pieces carefully around the board to your inner board while at the same time your opposing player shifts their chips toward their inner board in the opposing direction. With opposing player chips moving in opposing directions there is going to be conflict and the requirement for specific techniques at particular instances. Here are the last 2 Backgammon strategies to round out your game.
The Priming Game Strategy
If the goal of the blocking tactic is to slow down the opponent to shift his chips, the Priming Game strategy is to completely barricade any movement of the opposing player by creating a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s checkers will either get hit, or result a bad position if she ever tries to leave the wall. The trap of the prime can be setup anywhere between point two and point 11 in your game board. Once you’ve successfully constructed the prime to prevent the movement of your competitor, the opponent doesn’t even get a chance to toss the dice, that means you move your pieces and toss the dice yet again. You’ll win the game for sure.
The Back Game Strategy
The objectives of the Back Game technique and the Blocking Game strategy are similar – to harm your competitor’s positions in hope to improve your odds of succeeding, however the Back Game strategy utilizes alternate tactics to do that. The Back Game strategy is commonly utilized when you’re far behind your competitor. To compete in Backgammon with this tactic, you have to hold 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single checker) late in the game. This plan is more difficult than others to employ in Backgammon seeing as it needs careful movement of your checkers and how the checkers are moved is partly the result of the dice roll.