As we have dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a casino game of ability and pure luck. The aim is to shift your pieces carefully around the game board to your inner board and at the same time your opposition shifts their pieces toward their inner board in the opposing direction. With competing player chips shifting 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 round out your game.
The Priming Game Tactic
If the goal of the blocking tactic is to hamper the opponents ability to shift their pieces, the Priming Game strategy is to completely stop any movement of the opponent by creating a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s pieces will either get bumped, or end up in a bad position if he ever tries to leave the wall. The ambush of the prime can be built anywhere between point two and point 11 in your board. After you’ve successfully built the prime to block the movement of the opponent, the competitor does not even get to toss the dice, and you move your chips and roll the dice again. You will be a winner for sure.
The Back Game Tactic
The objectives of the Back Game technique and the Blocking Game plan are similar – to hurt your opponent’s positions hoping to boost your odds of winning, but the Back Game strategy relies on different tactics to do that. The Back Game plan is generally employed when you are far behind your opponent. To play Backgammon with this plan, you need to hold two or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This strategy is more complex than others to employ in Backgammon seeing as it requires careful movement of your checkers and how the pieces are relocated is partly the result of the dice toss.