As we dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a game of ability and good luck. The aim is to shift your checkers carefully around the board to your home board and at the same time your opposing player moves their pieces toward their home board in the opposite direction. With opposing player pieces moving in opposing directions there is going to be conflict and the need for particular strategies at specific times. Here are the last two Backgammon tactics to finish off your game.
The Priming Game Strategy
If the aim of the blocking strategy is to hamper the opponents ability to move their checkers, the Priming Game tactic is to completely block any movement 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 he at all tries to leave the wall. The trap of the prime can be established anywhere between point two and point eleven in your half of the board. As soon as you have successfully built the prime to block the movement of your opponent, the competitor doesn’t even get to toss the dice, and you shift your pieces and roll the dice again. You will win the game for sure.
The Back Game Technique
The aims of the Back Game tactic and the Blocking Game tactic are very similar – to harm your opponent’s positions in hope to better your odds of winning, but the Back Game technique uses alternate techniques to do that. The Back Game technique is commonly used when you’re far behind your opponent. To play Backgammon with this strategy, you need to control two or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single checker) late in the game. This plan is more difficult than others to use in Backgammon because it needs careful movement of your checkers and how the checkers are moved is partially the result of the dice toss.