As we have dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a game of ability and luck. The aim is to move your pieces safely around the board to your inner board and at the same time your opposition moves their checkers toward their home board in the opposite direction. With competing player checkers moving in opposing directions there is going to be conflict and the need for particular tactics at specific times. Here are the last 2 Backgammon strategies to finish off your game.
The Priming Game Strategy
If the purpose of the blocking tactic is to hamper the opponents ability to move her chips, the Priming Game strategy is to absolutely stop any movement of the opponent by assembling a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s pieces will either get hit, or result a bad position if she at all attempts to leave the wall. The trap of the prime can be setup anyplace between point 2 and point 11 in your half of the board. As soon as you have successfully built the prime to stop the activity of your competitor, your opponent doesn’t even get to toss the dice, that means you shift your pieces and roll the dice yet again. You’ll be a winner for sure.
The Back Game Plan
The goals of the Back Game plan and the Blocking Game technique are similar – to hinder your opponent’s positions in hope to better your odds of succeeding, however the Back Game technique utilizes alternate techniques to achieve that. The Back Game plan is generally used when you’re far behind your opponent. To participate in Backgammon with this technique, you have to control 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 use in Backgammon because it needs careful movement of your chips and how the chips are relocated is partly the outcome of the dice roll.
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