Posted by Nadia | Posted in Backgammon | Posted on 04-05-2024
As we dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a game of skill and good luck. The aim is to shift your checkers carefully around the board to your home board while at the same time your opposing player shifts their checkers toward their inner board in the opposing direction. With competing player pieces heading in opposing directions there is bound to be conflict and the need for specific techniques at particular instances. Here are the last two Backgammon techniques to finish off your game.
The Priming Game Plan
If the aim of the blocking plan is to hamper the opponents ability to move their chips, the Priming Game tactic is to completely stop any activity of the opposing player by creating a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s pieces will either get hit, or end up in a battered position if he/she at all attempts to escape the wall. The trap of the prime can be setup anyplace between point 2 and point eleven in your half of the board. As soon as you have successfully constructed the prime to block the movement of your competitor, the opponent doesn’t even get to roll the dice, and you move your chips and roll the dice again. You’ll be a winner for sure.
The Back Game Strategy
The goals of the Back Game plan and the Blocking Game strategy are very similar – to hinder your competitor’s positions hoping to boost your odds of succeeding, however the Back Game technique relies on seperate tactics to do that. The Back Game plan is generally employed when you’re far behind your competitor. To compete in Backgammon with this strategy, you need to hold 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single piece) late in the game. This strategy is more complex than others to use in Backgammon seeing as it requires careful movement of your pieces and how the pieces are moved is partly the result of the dice roll.