As we have dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a casino game of talent and pure luck. The goal is to shift your checkers safely around the game board to your inside board while at the same time your opposing player shifts their pieces toward their home board in the opposite direction. With opposing player chips moving in opposite directions there is bound to be conflict and the need for particular strategies at specific instances. Here are the last two Backgammon tactics to round out your game.
The Priming Game Plan
If the aim of the blocking strategy is to hamper the opponents ability to move their checkers, 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 opponent’s pieces will either get bumped, or result a bad position if she ever attempts to leave the wall. The ambush of the prime can be built anyplace between point 2 and point eleven in your half of the board. After you have successfully assembled the prime to block the activity of the opponent, your opponent does not even get a chance to roll the dice, that means you shift your pieces and toss the dice again. You will be a winner for sure.
The Back Game Tactic
The aims of the Back Game strategy and the Blocking Game strategy are similar – to hurt your opponent’s positions with hope to better your chances of succeeding, but the Back Game strategy utilizes seperate tactics to do that. The Back Game strategy is commonly used when you’re far behind your opponent. To play Backgammon with this tactic, you need to hold 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single checker) late in the game. This plan is more complex than others to play in Backgammon because it needs careful movement of your checkers and how the checkers are relocated is partially the outcome of the dice toss.