As we dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a game of ability and good luck. The aim is to shift your chips carefully around the game board to your inner board while at the same time your opposing player moves their checkers toward their home board in the opposing direction. With competing player pieces shifting in opposite directions there is going to be conflict and the need for particular strategies at specific times. Here are the two final Backgammon techniques to round out your game.
The Priming Game Tactic
If the aim of the blocking strategy is to hamper the opponents ability to move his chips, 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 opponent’s pieces will either get bumped, or end up in a bad position if he/she ever tries to leave the wall. The trap of the prime can be built anyplace between point two and point 11 in your board. As soon as you’ve successfully built the prime to block the activity of the opponent, your competitor doesn’t even get a chance to roll the dice, and you move your chips and roll the dice again. You’ll win the game for sure.
The Back Game Technique
The goals of the Back Game technique and the Blocking Game technique are similar – to hurt your competitor’s positions in hope to boost your chances of winning, however the Back Game strategy uses alternate tactics to achieve that. The Back Game plan is commonly utilized when you’re far behind your competitor. To compete in Backgammon with this strategy, you need to control two or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This strategy is more difficult than others to employ in Backgammon because it requires careful movement of your chips and how the checkers are moved is partially the result of the dice toss.
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