As we have dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a game of skill and luck. The goal is to move your pieces safely around the game board to your home board and at the same time your opposing player moves their chips toward their inner board in the opposite direction. With competing player chips shifting in opposite directions there is bound to be conflict and the requirement for particular techniques at particular times. Here are the 2 final Backgammon techniques to complete your game.
The Priming Game Plan
If the purpose of the blocking tactic is to slow down the opponent to shift her pieces, the Priming Game tactic is to completely stop any activity of the opponent by creating a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s pieces will either get bumped, or result a battered position if she 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 have successfully built the prime to block the movement of the opponent, the opponent doesn’t even get to toss the dice, and you move your pieces and toss the dice again. You will win the game for sure.
The Back Game Technique
The goals of the Back Game plan and the Blocking Game plan are similar – to hurt your competitor’s positions in hope to boost your chances of succeeding, but the Back Game plan relies on seperate tactics to achieve that. The Back Game plan is generally employed when you are far behind your opponent. To participate in Backgammon with this strategy, you have to control two or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This technique is more complex than others to play in Backgammon seeing as it needs careful movement of your chips and how the chips are moved is partly the outcome of the dice roll.
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