As we dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a game of talent and pure luck. The goal is to shift your checkers safely around the game board to your home board and at the same time your opponent moves their pieces toward their inside board in the opposing direction. With opposing player pieces shifting in opposite directions there is going to be conflict and the need for specific strategies at specific instances. Here are the 2 final Backgammon tactics to finish off your game.
The Priming Game Plan
If the purpose of the blocking strategy is to hamper the opponents ability to move their chips, the Priming Game tactic is to absolutely barricade any activity of the opposing player by constructing a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s chips will either get bumped, or end up in a bad position if he/she ever attempts to escape the wall. The ambush of the prime can be established anyplace between point 2 and point 11 in your board. As soon as you’ve successfully built the prime to stop the activity of your opponent, the competitor does not even get to roll the dice, and you move your checkers and toss the dice yet again. You will be a winner for sure.
The Back Game Plan
The aims of the Back Game technique and the Blocking Game tactic are similar – to harm your competitor’s positions in hope to better your odds of winning, but the Back Game strategy uses alternate techniques to achieve that. The Back Game technique is often used when you are far behind your opponent. To participate in Backgammon with this technique, you need to control 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This technique is more complex than others to play in Backgammon because it needs careful movement of your chips and how the checkers are moved is partially the outcome of the dice roll.