As we dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a game of talent and pure luck. The aim is to shift your chips safely around the game board to your home board and at the same time your opponent moves their checkers toward their inner board in the opposing direction. With competing player checkers heading in opposing directions there is bound to be conflict and the requirement for specific strategies at particular instances. Here are the two final Backgammon techniques to round out your game.
The Priming Game Strategy
If the goal of the blocking plan is to hamper the opponents ability to move their chips, the Priming Game strategy is to absolutely block any movement of the opposing player by building a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s chips will either get bumped, or result a bad position if he ever tries to escape the wall. The ambush of the prime can be established anyplace between point 2 and point 11 in your board. Once you’ve successfully constructed the prime to prevent the movement of your competitor, the competitor does not even get to toss the dice, and you move your pieces and roll the dice yet again. You’ll be a winner for sure.
The Back Game Strategy
The aims of the Back Game plan and the Blocking Game technique are very similar – to hurt your competitor’s positions hoping to boost your odds of winning, but the Back Game strategy relies on seperate tactics to achieve that. The Back Game technique is frequently employed when you are far behind your competitor. To compete in Backgammon with this tactic, you need to hold 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single checker) 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 chips are relocated is partially the result of the dice toss.
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