As we dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a game of ability and luck. The goal is to move your pieces safely around the board to your inner board while at the same time your opposing player shifts their pieces toward their inside board in the opposing direction. With opposing player pieces shifting in opposite directions there is bound to be conflict and the need for specific strategies at particular instances. Here are the 2 final Backgammon techniques to round out your game.
The Priming Game Tactic
If the goal of the blocking plan is to hamper the opponents ability to shift their pieces, the Priming Game plan is to completely stop any movement of the opponent by building a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s checkers will either get bumped, or end up in a battered position if he at all attempts to leave the wall. The trap of the prime can be built anyplace between point 2 and point eleven in your half of the board. Once you have successfully built the prime to prevent the activity of your competitor, the competitor does not even get a chance to toss the dice, and you shift your chips and roll the dice yet again. You’ll win the game for sure.
The Back Game Tactic
The aims of the Back Game technique and the Blocking Game tactic are similar – to hinder your opponent’s positions in hope to better your chances of succeeding, but the Back Game tactic relies on alternate tactics to do that. The Back Game strategy is often utilized when you’re far behind your competitor. To play Backgammon with this plan, you have to hold two or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This plan is more complex than others to employ in Backgammon because it needs careful movement of your chips and how the chips are moved is partially the outcome of the dice toss.