As we have dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a game of skill and luck. The goal is to move your checkers carefully around the board to your home board while at the same time your opposing player shifts their checkers toward their inner board in the opposite direction. With competing player pieces shifting in opposite directions there is going to be conflict and the need for specific techniques at specific times. Here are the 2 final Backgammon tactics to round out your game.
The Priming Game Strategy
If the goal of the blocking strategy is to hamper the opponents ability to shift their checkers, the Priming Game tactic is to completely stop any activity of the opponent by creating a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s pieces will either get hit, or result a battered position if she ever attempts to escape the wall. The trap of the prime can be setup anywhere between point two and point 11 in your game board. As soon as you’ve successfully constructed the prime to block the activity of the opponent, your opponent doesn’t even get a chance to roll the dice, that means you move your pieces and toss the dice again. You’ll be a winner for sure.
The Back Game Plan
The goals of the Back Game plan and the Blocking Game plan are similar – to hinder your competitor’s positions hoping to boost your chances of succeeding, but the Back Game tactic relies on seperate techniques to do that. The Back Game tactic is frequently used when you are far behind your competitor. To play Backgammon with this plan, you have to control 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This technique is more challenging than others to play in Backgammon seeing as it needs careful movement of your checkers and how the chips are moved is partly the result of the dice roll.