The Basics of Backgammon Strategies – Part 2
As we dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a casino game of skill and pure luck. The aim is to shift your checkers safely around the game board to your home board and at the same time your opponent moves their checkers toward their inside board in the opposite direction. With competing player pieces heading in opposing directions there is bound to be conflict and the need for specific strategies at particular instances. Here are the 2 final Backgammon techniques to complete your game.
The Priming Game Strategy
If the goal of the blocking strategy is to slow down the opponent to move his pieces, the Priming Game plan is to completely stop any activity of the opponent by constructing a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s checkers will either get bumped, or result a battered position if he/she ever tries to leave 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 have successfully built the prime to stop the activity of your opponent, the competitor doesn’t even get a chance to toss the dice, and you shift your chips and toss the dice again. You will be a winner for sure.
The Back Game Plan
The aims of the Back Game plan and the Blocking Game technique are very similar – to hinder your competitor’s positions in hope to better your chances of winning, however the Back Game technique utilizes alternate techniques to achieve that. The Back Game technique is generally employed when you’re far behind your opponent. To play Backgammon with this strategy, you have to hold 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This plan is more complex than others to play in Backgammon because it requires careful movement of your checkers and how the pieces are moved is partially the outcome of the dice roll.