As we have dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a game of skill and pure luck. The goal is to move your pieces safely around the board to your inner board and at the same time your opposition moves their checkers toward their home board in the opposite direction. With opposing player chips shifting in opposing directions there is bound to be conflict and the requirement for particular tactics at particular times. Here are the last 2 Backgammon plans to complete your game.
The Priming Game Strategy
If the purpose of the blocking strategy is to hamper the opponents ability to shift his chips, the Priming Game plan is to completely block any activity of the opposing player by constructing a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s chips will either get hit, or result a damaged position if she ever tries to escape the wall. The trap of the prime can be built anywhere between point 2 and point 11 in your game board. As soon as you’ve successfully built the prime to stop the activity of your opponent, your opponent doesn’t even get to toss the dice, that means you move your chips and toss the dice again. You will win the game for sure.
The Back Game Technique
The goals of the Back Game plan and the Blocking Game tactic are very similar – to harm your competitor’s positions with hope to boost your chances of winning, but the Back Game technique uses seperate tactics to achieve that. The Back Game strategy is generally employed when you are far behind your competitor. To compete in Backgammon with this tactic, you have to control two or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single checker) late in the game. This strategy is more difficult than others to use in Backgammon seeing as it needs careful movement of your pieces and how the checkers are relocated is partially the result of the dice toss.