As we dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a casino game of talent and pure luck. The goal is to move your chips carefully around the game board to your home board while at the same time your opponent shifts their checkers toward their inner board in the opposing direction. With competing player pieces shifting in opposite directions there is going to be conflict and the need for specific techniques at specific instances. Here are the two final Backgammon plans to complete your game.
The Priming Game Plan
If the goal of the blocking plan is to slow down the opponent to shift her pieces, the Priming Game plan is to completely stop any movement of the opposing player by assembling a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s checkers will either get bumped, or end up in a battered position if he ever attempts to leave the wall. The trap of the prime can be established anywhere between point 2 and point 11 in your half of the board. Once you’ve successfully assembled the prime to stop the activity of the competitor, your competitor does not even get a chance to roll the dice, and you move your pieces and roll the dice yet again. You’ll win the game for sure.
The Back Game Technique
The aims of the Back Game strategy and the Blocking Game tactic are very similar – to harm your competitor’s positions in hope to boost your odds of winning, but the Back Game tactic relies on seperate techniques to achieve that. The Back Game strategy is frequently used when you are far behind your opponent. To play Backgammon with this technique, you need to control two or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single checker) late in the game. This strategy is more challenging than others to use in Backgammon because it needs careful movement of your pieces and how the checkers are relocated is partly the outcome of the dice roll.
March 5th, 2025
Lee
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