Posted by Darien | Posted in Backgammon | Posted on 20-01-2025
As we dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a game of talent and luck. The goal is to move your chips carefully around the board to your inner board and at the same time your opposing player moves their chips toward their inside board in the opposing direction. With opposing player checkers shifting in opposite directions there is going to be conflict and the requirement for specific tactics at specific instances. Here are the 2 final Backgammon techniques to finish off your game.
The Priming Game Plan
If the purpose of the blocking strategy is to hamper the opponents ability to shift his pieces, the Priming Game strategy is to absolutely block any movement of the opponent by creating a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s chips will either get bumped, or end up in a bad position if she ever tries to escape the wall. The trap of the prime can be setup anyplace between point two and point eleven in your half of the board. As soon as you have successfully built the prime to stop the activity of your competitor, the competitor doesn’t even get to toss the dice, that means you move your chips and toss the dice yet again. You’ll be a winner for sure.
The Back Game Tactic
The goals of the Back Game tactic and the Blocking Game strategy are very similar – to hinder your competitor’s positions in hope to improve your chances of winning, however the Back Game plan uses different techniques to do that. The Back Game plan is often employed when you’re far behind your opponent. To participate in Backgammon with this plan, you have to control two or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single checker) late in the game. This strategy is more complex than others to play in Backgammon seeing as it requires careful movement of your checkers and how the chips are relocated is partly the result of the dice toss.