As we dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a game of talent and luck. The aim is to move your pieces carefully around the board to your inner board while at the same time your opposition shifts their pieces toward their inner board in the opposite direction. With competing player pieces moving in opposing directions there is bound to be conflict and the need for specific techniques at particular times. Here are the last two Backgammon strategies to complete your game.
The Priming Game Tactic
If the goal of the blocking tactic is to hamper the opponents ability to shift her pieces, the Priming Game plan is to absolutely barricade any movement of the opponent by constructing a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s checkers will either get bumped, or result a damaged position if she at all attempts to escape the wall. The ambush of the prime can be setup anyplace between point two and point eleven in your board. As soon as you have successfully built the prime to block the activity of the opponent, your competitor doesn’t even get to roll the dice, that means you move your pieces and roll the dice yet again. You will win the game for sure.
The Back Game Tactic
The aims of the Back Game tactic and the Blocking Game technique are similar – to hinder your opponent’s positions with hope to boost your chances of succeeding, but the Back Game technique utilizes alternate techniques to achieve that. The Back Game tactic is generally utilized when you are far behind your competitor. To compete in Backgammon with this strategy, you have to control 2 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 chips and how the chips are moved is partially the result of the dice roll.