As we dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a game of ability and pure luck. The goal is to shift your pieces carefully around the game board to your inner board while at the same time your opposition shifts their chips toward their inner board in the opposite direction. With competing player checkers heading in opposite directions there is bound to be conflict and the requirement for specific techniques at specific instances. Here are the last 2 Backgammon tactics to complete your game.
The Priming Game Strategy
If the goal of the blocking tactic is to hamper the opponents ability to move her pieces, the Priming Game tactic is to completely barricade any activity of the opponent by creating a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s pieces will either get hit, or result a bad position if she at all tries to leave the wall. The ambush of the prime can be established anyplace between point 2 and point eleven in your board. As soon as you have successfully assembled the prime to stop the movement of the opponent, your competitor doesn’t even get a chance to toss the dice, that means you move your checkers and toss the dice again. You will be a winner for sure.
The Back Game Plan
The goals of the Back Game plan and the Blocking Game plan are similar – to hurt your competitor’s positions with hope to better your chances of succeeding, but the Back Game technique utilizes different techniques to achieve that. The Back Game plan is often used when you’re far behind your opponent. To play Backgammon with this tactic, you need to control two or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single checker) late in the game. This strategy is more challenging than others to use in Backgammon because it requires careful movement of your chips and how the checkers are relocated is partly the result of the dice toss.