As we have dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a casino game of ability and luck. The goal is to shift your checkers safely around the board to your home board while at the same time your opposing player shifts their chips toward their home board in the opposite direction. With competing player chips shifting in opposite directions there is bound to be conflict and the need for specific tactics at particular instances. Here are the two final Backgammon tactics to finish off your game.
The Priming Game Strategy
If the goal of the blocking tactic is to slow down the opponent to shift his pieces, the Priming Game strategy is to absolutely barricade any movement of the opponent by creating a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s chips will either get bumped, or result a bad position if he at all tries to escape the wall. The ambush of the prime can be built anyplace between point two and point 11 in your half of the board. Once you have successfully built the prime to block the movement of the opponent, the competitor does not even get a chance to toss the dice, and you shift your checkers and roll the dice yet again. You will win the game for sure.
The Back Game Strategy
The goals of the Back Game tactic and the Blocking Game technique are very similar – to hurt your competitor’s positions with hope to boost your chances of succeeding, but the Back Game plan utilizes alternate techniques to do that. The Back Game plan is often employed when you are far behind your competitor. To participate in Backgammon with this technique, you have to hold 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot 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 pieces are relocated is partially the result of the dice roll.