As we dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a game of ability and pure luck. The aim is to move your checkers safely around the game board to your inside board while at the same time your opponent shifts their chips toward their home board in the opposing direction. With competing player pieces shifting in opposite directions there is bound to be conflict and the requirement for specific tactics at specific times. Here are the 2 final Backgammon tactics to finish off your game.
The Priming Game Plan
If the goal of the blocking tactic is to slow down the opponent to shift his checkers, the Priming Game tactic is to completely block any movement of the opposing player by building a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s pieces will either get hit, or result a bad position if she at all tries to escape the wall. The trap of the prime can be setup anywhere between point two and point eleven in your game board. As soon as you have successfully constructed the prime to block the movement of your opponent, the opponent doesn’t even get to toss the dice, that means you shift your chips and roll the dice yet again. You’ll be a winner for sure.
The Back Game Strategy
The goals of the Back Game strategy and the Blocking Game plan are similar – to hinder your opponent’s positions in hope to better your odds of succeeding, but the Back Game tactic utilizes alternate tactics to achieve that. The Back Game tactic is frequently used when you are far behind your competitor. To compete in Backgammon with this plan, you need to control 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single checker) late in the game. This technique is more challenging than others to use in Backgammon seeing as it needs careful movement of your checkers and how the pieces are moved is partially the result of the dice toss.