As we have dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a game of talent and luck. The goal is to move your chips carefully around the game board to your inner board while at the same time your opponent shifts their chips toward their inside board in the opposing direction. With opposing player pieces heading in opposite directions there is bound to be conflict and the need for specific techniques at specific times. Here are the last two Backgammon strategies to finish off your game.
The Priming Game Plan
If the aim of the blocking plan is to slow down the opponent to move her checkers, the Priming Game tactic is to completely barricade any movement of the opposing player by assembling a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s checkers will either get bumped, or end up in a bad position if he/she ever attempts to escape the wall. The ambush of the prime can be built anywhere between point two and point 11 in your half of the board. As soon as you’ve successfully constructed the prime to stop the movement of the competitor, your competitor doesn’t even get to roll the dice, that means you shift your pieces and roll the dice again. You will be a winner for sure.
The Back Game Tactic
The objectives of the Back Game strategy and the Blocking Game tactic are very similar – to hinder your opponent’s positions in hope to better your odds of succeeding, but the Back Game plan utilizes different tactics to do that. The Back Game technique is generally employed when you’re far behind your competitor. To compete in Backgammon with this plan, you have to control two or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This plan is more complex than others to play in Backgammon because it requires careful movement of your chips and how the pieces are relocated is partly the result of the dice roll.
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