As we dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a game of ability and pure luck. The goal is to move your pieces carefully around the game board to your inner board and at the same time your opposing player moves their checkers toward their home board in the opposing direction. With competing player checkers moving in opposing directions there is going to be conflict and the requirement for specific techniques at specific instances. Here are the two final Backgammon tactics to finish off your game.
The Priming Game Strategy
If the purpose of the blocking strategy is to slow down the opponent to move their chips, the Priming Game plan is to absolutely stop any movement of the opponent by building a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s chips will either get bumped, or end up in a bad position if he/she ever attempts to leave the wall. The ambush of the prime can be established anywhere between point 2 and point eleven in your board. As soon as you’ve successfully assembled the prime to block the activity of your competitor, your competitor doesn’t even get a chance to toss the dice, that means you shift your chips and toss the dice yet again. You will win the game for sure.
The Back Game Plan
The objectives of the Back Game strategy and the Blocking Game strategy are similar – to hinder your competitor’s positions with hope to improve your odds of winning, but the Back Game technique utilizes alternate techniques to do that. The Back Game strategy is often used when you are far behind your opponent. To participate in Backgammon with this strategy, 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 requires careful movement of your checkers and how the pieces are relocated is partly the outcome of the dice toss.