As we dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a game of ability and luck. The aim is to shift your chips carefully around the board to your home board while at the same time your opposing player moves their checkers toward their inner board in the opposite direction. With opposing player pieces heading in opposing directions there is going to be conflict and the need for particular strategies at particular instances. Here are the two final Backgammon tactics to finish off your game.
The Priming Game Tactic
If the purpose of the blocking strategy is to slow down the opponent to shift his pieces, the Priming Game strategy is to absolutely stop any activity of the opponent by constructing a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s pieces will either get hit, or result a damaged position if she ever attempts to leave the wall. The ambush of the prime can be setup anyplace between point 2 and point eleven in your board. Once you have successfully built the prime to stop the activity of your opponent, the competitor doesn’t even get to toss the dice, that means you move your checkers and roll the dice again. You will win the game for sure.
The Back Game Technique
The objectives of the Back Game tactic and the Blocking Game tactic are very similar – to harm your competitor’s positions hoping to better your odds of winning, but the Back Game technique uses seperate tactics to achieve that. The Back Game plan is generally used when you are far behind your opponent. To compete in Backgammon with this technique, you have to hold 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single checker) late in the game. This plan is more difficult than others to use in Backgammon because it requires careful movement of your pieces and how the pieces are relocated is partly the result of the dice toss.