Posted by Darien | Posted in Backgammon | Posted on 03-12-2015
As we have dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a game of ability and good luck. The goal is to move your chips carefully around the game board to your home board and at the same time your opponent shifts their checkers toward their inner board in the opposite direction. With competing player pieces heading in opposing directions there is bound to be conflict and the requirement for particular strategies at particular times. Here are the last two Backgammon techniques to complete your game.
The Priming Game Strategy
If the aim of the blocking plan is to hamper the opponents ability to move their chips, the Priming Game plan 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 end up in a battered position if he/she at all tries to leave the wall. The trap of the prime can be built anywhere between point 2 and point 11 in your half of the board. After you have successfully assembled the prime to prevent the activity of the competitor, the competitor does not even get to roll the dice, and you move your pieces and roll the dice yet again. You’ll be a winner for sure.
The Back Game Technique
The goals of the Back Game plan and the Blocking Game plan are similar – to hinder your opponent’s positions hoping to improve your odds of winning, but the Back Game tactic relies on different techniques to do that. The Back Game tactic is often used when you are far behind your competitor. To play Backgammon with this tactic, you need to hold 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This technique is more challenging than others to play in Backgammon because it needs careful movement of your chips and how the checkers are relocated is partially the result of the dice roll.