As we dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a casino game of skill and luck. The goal is to move your pieces carefully around the board to your inner board and at the same time your opposition moves their pieces toward their home board in the opposing direction. With competing player checkers heading in opposite directions there is bound to be conflict and the requirement for specific strategies at particular times. Here are the two final Backgammon techniques to complete your game.
The Priming Game Strategy
If the purpose of the blocking strategy is to hamper the opponents ability to shift their pieces, the Priming Game strategy is to completely stop any movement of the opposing player by creating a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s chips will either get bumped, or result a damaged position if she at all tries to leave the wall. The trap of the prime can be established anywhere between point two and point eleven in your game board. After you have successfully built the prime to block the activity of the competitor, your opponent doesn’t even get a chance to roll the dice, that means you move your pieces and toss the dice yet again. You’ll be a winner for sure.
The Back Game Tactic
The objectives of the Back Game plan and the Blocking Game strategy are very similar – to hinder your competitor’s positions with hope to improve your odds of succeeding, but the Back Game tactic utilizes seperate techniques to do that. The Back Game strategy is commonly used when you’re far behind your opponent. To participate in Backgammon with this tactic, you need to control 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 use in Backgammon seeing as it requires careful movement of your chips and how the chips are moved is partially the result of the dice toss.
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