As we have dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a game of talent and pure luck. The aim is to move your pieces safely around the game board to your home board while at the same time your opponent shifts their chips toward their inside board in the opposing direction. With competing player chips moving in opposite directions there is going to be conflict and the need for particular strategies at specific instances. Here are the 2 final Backgammon techniques to round out your game.
The Priming Game Strategy
If the purpose of the blocking plan is to hamper the opponents ability to move their chips, the Priming Game plan is to absolutely block any activity of the opposing player by assembling a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s chips will either get bumped, or end up in a bad position if he at all attempts to escape the wall. The ambush of the prime can be established anyplace between point two and point eleven in your half of the board. As soon as you’ve successfully built the prime to prevent the activity of the competitor, the competitor does not even get to roll the dice, that means you move your pieces and roll the dice again. You will be a winner for sure.
The Back Game Tactic
The objectives of the Back Game tactic and the Blocking Game strategy are similar – to hurt your opponent’s positions hoping to better your odds of succeeding, but the Back Game strategy uses alternate tactics to do that. The Back Game strategy is frequently utilized when you’re far behind your competitor. To participate in Backgammon with this plan, you need to control 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This technique is more difficult than others to play 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.