As we dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a casino game of talent and good luck. The goal is to shift your pieces carefully around the board to your home board while at the same time your opponent moves their pieces toward their inside board in the opposite direction. With competing player chips shifting in opposite directions there is going to be conflict and the need for particular tactics at specific times. Here are the last two Backgammon techniques to round out your game.
The Priming Game Tactic
If the goal of the blocking tactic is to slow down the opponent to shift their pieces, the Priming Game strategy is to absolutely block any activity of the opposing player by creating a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s checkers will either get bumped, or result a bad position if he/she ever attempts to escape the wall. The ambush of the prime can be established anyplace between point 2 and point eleven in your half of the board. After you have successfully constructed the prime to block the activity of the competitor, your competitor does not even get a chance to toss the dice, and you shift your chips and roll the dice yet again. You will win the game for sure.
The Back Game Tactic
The goals of the Back Game strategy and the Blocking Game tactic are similar – to hurt your competitor’s positions hoping to boost your chances of winning, but the Back Game technique relies on alternate techniques to achieve that. The Back Game strategy is commonly used when you are far behind your opponent. To participate in Backgammon with this tactic, you have to hold two or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This technique is more difficult than others to employ in Backgammon seeing as it requires careful movement of your chips and how the chips are relocated is partially the result of the dice toss.