As we dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a game of skill and good luck. The aim is to shift your chips carefully around the board to your inside board while at the same time your opposition shifts their chips toward their home board in the opposing direction. With competing player chips shifting in opposing directions there is going to be conflict and the need for particular strategies at particular times. Here are the two final Backgammon tactics to round out your game.
The Priming Game Tactic
If the purpose of the blocking strategy is to hamper the opponents ability to move his pieces, the Priming Game strategy is to absolutely stop any movement of the opponent by creating a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s pieces will either get bumped, or result a damaged position if he at all attempts to leave the wall. The trap of the prime can be setup anywhere between point 2 and point 11 in your board. After you’ve successfully built the prime to block the activity of the competitor, the competitor does not even get a chance to toss the dice, and you shift your chips and roll the dice again. You’ll be a winner for sure.
The Back Game Technique
The goals of the Back Game technique and the Blocking Game tactic are similar – to hurt your opponent’s positions in hope to better your odds of winning, but the Back Game strategy utilizes seperate tactics to achieve that. The Back Game technique is commonly employed when you’re far behind your competitor. To play Backgammon with this plan, you need to control two or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single checker) late in the game. This technique is more difficult than others to play in Backgammon because it needs careful movement of your checkers and how the checkers are relocated is partly the outcome of the dice roll.