As we have dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a casino game of talent and good luck. The goal is to move your chips carefully around the game board to your home board while at the same time your opposition shifts their checkers toward their home board in the opposite direction. With opposing player checkers heading in opposing directions there is bound to be conflict and the need for particular techniques at specific instances. Here are the two final Backgammon techniques to complete your game.
The Priming Game Tactic
If the aim of the blocking tactic is to hamper the opponents ability to move her pieces, the Priming Game strategy is to completely block any activity of the opponent by assembling a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s chips will either get bumped, or result a damaged position if she at all tries to escape the wall. The ambush of the prime can be setup anywhere between point 2 and point 11 in your half of the board. After you’ve successfully built the prime to stop the movement of the opponent, your opponent does not even get to toss the dice, and you move your checkers and toss the dice yet again. You’ll be a winner for sure.
The Back Game Plan
The goals of the Back Game tactic and the Blocking Game strategy are similar – to hurt your competitor’s positions with hope to improve your odds of succeeding, but the Back Game technique uses different tactics to achieve that. The Back Game technique is frequently used when you are far behind your opponent. To play Backgammon with this technique, you have to hold two or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single checker) late in the game. This plan is more challenging than others to play in Backgammon seeing as it requires careful movement of your chips and how the chips are moved is partially the result of the dice roll.
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