As we dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a game of talent and good luck. The aim is to shift your checkers safely around the game board to your home board while at the same time your opposing player moves their chips toward their home board in the opposite direction. With opposing player checkers shifting in opposite directions there is bound to be conflict and the requirement for particular strategies at specific instances. Here are the two final Backgammon tactics to complete your game.
The Priming Game Tactic
If the goal of the blocking plan is to hamper the opponents ability to move their chips, the Priming Game tactic is to absolutely barricade any movement of the opponent by building a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s pieces will either get bumped, or result a battered position if she at all attempts to escape the wall. The ambush of the prime can be established anyplace between point two and point eleven in your game board. Once you have successfully assembled the prime to block the activity of your competitor, your competitor doesn’t even get to roll the dice, and you move your checkers and toss the dice yet again. You will win the game for sure.
The Back Game Technique
The aims of the Back Game plan and the Blocking Game technique are similar – to hinder your competitor’s positions in hope to improve your chances of succeeding, but the Back Game tactic relies on different tactics to achieve that. The Back Game strategy is commonly utilized when you are far behind your competitor. To participate in Backgammon with this plan, you have to hold two or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single piece) late in the game. This technique is more difficult than others to employ in Backgammon seeing as it requires careful movement of your pieces and how the chips are moved is partly the outcome of the dice toss.