As we have dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a game of skill and pure luck. The goal is to shift your pieces carefully around the board to your inside board while at the same time your opposing player shifts their pieces toward their inner board in the opposite direction. With opposing player pieces shifting in opposite directions there is going to be conflict and the requirement for particular strategies at specific instances. Here are the last two Backgammon techniques to complete your game.
The Priming Game Strategy
If the goal of the blocking strategy is to hamper the opponents ability to shift her checkers, the Priming Game tactic is to completely stop any movement of the opponent by constructing a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s pieces will either get bumped, or end up in a damaged position if he/she at all tries to escape the wall. The trap of the prime can be built anywhere between point two and point 11 in your half of the board. As soon as you’ve successfully constructed the prime to stop the activity of the competitor, your competitor doesn’t even get to toss the dice, that means you shift your checkers and roll the dice again. You’ll win the game for sure.
The Back Game Plan
The aims of the Back Game plan and the Blocking Game plan are very similar – to hurt your opponent’s positions in hope to boost your odds of winning, but the Back Game technique relies on alternate tactics to achieve that. The Back Game strategy is commonly used when you are far behind your opponent. To play Backgammon with this plan, you have to hold 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single piece) late in the game. This strategy is more complex than others to employ in Backgammon seeing as it needs careful movement of your pieces and how the checkers are relocated is partially the outcome of the dice roll.