Posted by Nadia | Posted in Backgammon | Posted on 14-11-2015
As we dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a casino game of ability and good luck. The aim is to move your checkers safely around the game board to your inner board while at the same time your opposing player shifts their chips toward their home board in the opposite direction. With opposing player chips moving in opposing directions there is going to be conflict and the need for particular techniques at specific instances. Here are the two final Backgammon strategies to finish off your game.
The Priming Game Strategy
If the purpose of the blocking tactic is to hamper the opponents ability to move his checkers, the Priming Game tactic is to absolutely barricade any movement of the opponent by creating a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s pieces will either get hit, or end up in a damaged position if he ever attempts to escape the wall. The ambush of the prime can be established anywhere between point two and point eleven in your board. After you’ve successfully assembled the prime to stop the movement of the opponent, your opponent doesn’t even get to roll the dice, and you move your checkers and roll the dice again. You will be a winner for sure.
The Back Game Strategy
The aims of the Back Game technique and the Blocking Game strategy are very similar – to hurt your opponent’s positions in hope to improve your odds of succeeding, but the Back Game tactic utilizes alternate tactics to do that. The Back Game strategy is often used when you are far behind your competitor. To play Backgammon with this tactic, you have to hold two or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single checker) late in the game. This technique is more complex than others to play in Backgammon because it requires careful movement of your pieces and how the chips are relocated is partly the outcome of the dice roll.