As we dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a casino game of talent and luck. The goal is to move your chips safely around the game board to your home board and at the same time your opposing player shifts their checkers toward their inner board in the opposite direction. With opposing player checkers shifting in opposite directions there is going to be conflict and the need for particular tactics at particular times. Here are the 2 final Backgammon strategies to complete your game.
The Priming Game Plan
If the goal of the blocking plan is to slow down the opponent to move his pieces, the Priming Game strategy is to absolutely block any activity of the opposing player by constructing a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s pieces will either get bumped, or result a battered position if he/she ever attempts to escape the wall. The ambush of the prime can be built anywhere between point two and point 11 in your board. Once you’ve successfully built the prime to block the movement of the competitor, the competitor does not even get a chance to toss the dice, and 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 strategy and the Blocking Game technique are very similar – to hinder your competitor’s positions with hope to boost your odds of succeeding, but the Back Game strategy uses alternate tactics to do that. The Back Game strategy is commonly employed when you’re far behind your competitor. To participate in Backgammon with this plan, you need to hold 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single checker) late in the game. This strategy is more challenging than others to play in Backgammon because it needs careful movement of your pieces and how the checkers are relocated is partly the result of the dice roll.