As we dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a casino game of ability and good luck. The goal is to shift your checkers safely around the game board to your home board while at the same time your opponent shifts their checkers toward their inner board in the opposing direction. With competing player checkers shifting in opposing directions there is going to be conflict and the requirement for particular techniques at particular instances. Here are the 2 final Backgammon strategies to finish off your game.
The Priming Game Strategy
If the aim of the blocking tactic is to hamper the opponents ability to move her checkers, the Priming Game plan 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 bumped, or end up in a damaged position if she at all attempts to escape the wall. The trap of the prime can be built anywhere between point two and point eleven in your game board. As soon as you have successfully constructed the prime to prevent the activity of your opponent, your opponent does not even get to roll the dice, and you move your checkers and roll the dice again. You will win the game for sure.
The Back Game Technique
The goals of the Back Game technique and the Blocking Game strategy are very similar – to hurt your competitor’s positions in hope to better your odds of succeeding, however the Back Game technique relies on alternate techniques to do that. The Back Game tactic is generally employed when you’re far behind your competitor. To participate in Backgammon with this tactic, you need to hold 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single checker) late in the game. This tactic is more difficult than others to employ in Backgammon seeing as it requires careful movement of your checkers and how the chips are moved is partly the result of the dice toss.