Posted by Darien | Posted in Backgammon | Posted on 28-09-2020
As we have dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a casino game of skill and pure luck. The goal is to shift your checkers safely around the board to your inner board while at the same time your opposing player moves their pieces toward their inner board in the opposite direction. With opposing player chips shifting in opposite directions there is going to be conflict and the need for specific tactics at specific instances. Here are the last 2 Backgammon strategies to finish off your game.
The Priming Game Strategy
If the goal of the blocking tactic is to slow down the opponent to shift her pieces, the Priming Game plan is to absolutely barricade any movement of the opposing player by building a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s checkers will either get hit, or end up in a battered position if he at all tries 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. Once you’ve successfully assembled the prime to stop the activity of the competitor, your competitor doesn’t even get a chance to roll the dice, that means you move your chips and roll the dice yet again. You’ll win the game for sure.
The Back Game Plan
The goals of the Back Game technique and the Blocking Game plan are very similar – to hurt your opponent’s positions hoping to better your odds of winning, but the Back Game plan relies on different techniques to achieve that. The Back Game strategy is often employed when you are far behind your competitor. To play Backgammon with this technique, you need to control two or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single piece) late in the game. This plan is more complex than others to use in Backgammon seeing as it requires careful movement of your chips and how the checkers are relocated is partially the result of the dice roll.