Posted by Nadia | Posted in Backgammon | Posted on 21-02-2024
As we have dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a game of skill and good luck. The goal is to shift your chips safely around the game board to your inside board and at the same time your opponent shifts their chips toward their home board in the opposing direction. With opposing player chips moving in opposing directions there is going to be conflict and the requirement for particular strategies at particular instances. Here are the two final Backgammon techniques to finish off your game.
The Priming Game Plan
If the purpose of the blocking tactic is to hamper the opponents ability to shift his chips, the Priming Game tactic is to absolutely barricade any activity of the opposing player by building a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s pieces will either get hit, or end up in a bad position if he at all attempts to leave the wall. The trap of the prime can be built anyplace between point 2 and point eleven in your half of the board. After you’ve successfully built the prime to prevent the activity of the opponent, your competitor doesn’t even get to toss the dice, and you shift your chips and toss the dice yet again. You’ll be a winner for sure.
The Back Game Technique
The objectives of the Back Game strategy and the Blocking Game strategy are similar – to hinder your competitor’s positions with hope to boost your chances of winning, but the Back Game technique utilizes alternate techniques to do that. The Back Game strategy is generally used when you are far behind your competitor. To participate in Backgammon with this plan, you have to hold 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single checker) late in the game. This plan is more difficult than others to employ in Backgammon seeing as it requires careful movement of your pieces and how the pieces are moved is partly the result of the dice toss.