The Essential Basics of Backgammon Strategies – Part 2
As we have dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a game of skill and pure luck. The aim is to shift your chips safely around the game board to your home board and at the same time your opposing player moves their checkers toward their home board in the opposing direction. With opposing player checkers heading in opposite directions there is going to be conflict and the requirement for particular strategies at particular times. Here are the last two Backgammon strategies to complete your game.
The Priming Game Strategy
If the goal of the blocking strategy is to hamper the opponents ability to move his chips, the Priming Game plan is to absolutely barricade any activity of the opposing player by building a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s chips will either get hit, or result a bad position if he ever attempts to leave the wall. The trap of the prime can be setup anywhere between point two and point 11 in your half of the board. Once you have successfully constructed the prime to prevent the activity of the opponent, your opponent does not even get a chance to toss the dice, and you move your chips and toss the dice again. You’ll be a winner for sure.
The Back Game Strategy
The goals of the Back Game technique and the Blocking Game strategy are similar – to hinder your opponent’s positions in hope to improve your chances of succeeding, however the Back Game tactic uses seperate techniques to do that. The Back Game technique is often used when you’re far behind your opponent. To compete in Backgammon with this technique, you have to control 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This technique is more difficult than others to employ in Backgammon seeing as it needs careful movement of your pieces and how the checkers are moved is partly the result of the dice toss.