As we dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a casino game of talent and luck. The goal is to shift your checkers safely around the board to your home board and at the same time your opposition shifts their pieces toward their home board in the opposing direction. With competing player checkers heading in opposite directions there is going to be conflict and the requirement for particular techniques at particular instances. Here are the last 2 Backgammon techniques to complete your game.
The Priming Game Tactic
If the aim of the blocking plan is to slow down the opponent to move her checkers, the Priming Game strategy is to completely block any activity of the opposing player by creating a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s pieces will either get hit, or end up in a battered position if he at all tries to escape the wall. The trap of the prime can be setup anyplace between point two and point eleven in your half of the board. Once you’ve successfully built the prime to prevent the activity of the opponent, the competitor doesn’t even get a chance to toss the dice, that means you shift your pieces and roll the dice again. You will be a winner for sure.
The Back Game Plan
The aims of the Back Game strategy and the Blocking Game plan are very similar – to harm your opponent’s positions in hope to improve your odds of succeeding, however the Back Game technique uses different techniques to achieve that. The Back Game plan is generally employed when you’re far behind your opponent. To play Backgammon with this plan, you need to control two or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single checker) late in the game. This plan is more challenging than others to use in Backgammon because it requires careful movement of your chips and how the pieces are relocated is partly the outcome of the dice toss.
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