As we dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a game of talent and pure luck. The goal is to shift your pieces safely around the board to your inside board and at the same time your opposing player shifts their pieces toward their inner board in the opposing direction. With competing player checkers moving in opposite directions there is going to be conflict and the need for specific tactics at particular times. Here are the last 2 Backgammon techniques to round out your game.
The Priming Game Strategy
If the goal of the blocking strategy is to slow down the opponent to move her checkers, the Priming Game tactic is to completely stop any movement of the opposing player by constructing a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s pieces will either get bumped, or result a damaged position if he/she ever tries to escape the wall. The ambush of the prime can be established anywhere between point 2 and point eleven in your game board. Once you’ve successfully assembled the prime to prevent the activity of your competitor, the competitor does not even get to toss the dice, and you shift your chips and roll the dice again. You will win the game for sure.
The Back Game Plan
The objectives of the Back Game technique and the Blocking Game tactic are very similar – to harm your competitor’s positions in hope to better your odds of winning, but the Back Game tactic utilizes alternate tactics to do that. The Back Game technique is commonly used when you are far behind your opponent. To play Backgammon with this tactic, you have to hold two or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single checker) late in the game. This technique is more complex than others to play in Backgammon because it requires careful movement of your chips and how the checkers are relocated is partly the outcome of the dice toss.