As we have dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a casino game of ability and good luck. The goal is to shift your checkers carefully around the board to your inner board and at the same time your opponent shifts their pieces toward their inner board in the opposite direction. With opposing player pieces shifting in opposite directions there is going to be conflict and the requirement for specific tactics at particular instances. Here are the last two Backgammon techniques to complete your game.
The Priming Game Tactic
If the goal of the blocking plan is to hamper the opponents ability to shift their checkers, the Priming Game strategy is to absolutely stop any activity of the opposing player by constructing 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 attempts to leave the wall. The ambush of the prime can be built anywhere between point 2 and point eleven in your half of the board. Once you have successfully constructed the prime to block the movement of the competitor, your competitor does not even get a chance to toss the dice, that means you move your pieces and roll the dice yet again. You will win the game for sure.
The Back Game Tactic
The goals of the Back Game strategy and the Blocking Game strategy are similar – to hurt your competitor’s positions in hope to better your chances of winning, however the Back Game plan uses alternate techniques to do that. The Back Game strategy is generally utilized when you’re far behind your opponent. To participate in Backgammon with this technique, you have to control two or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single checker) late in the game. This strategy is more difficult than others to play in Backgammon because it needs careful movement of your checkers and how the chips are relocated is partly the result of the dice toss.