As we have dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a game of skill and pure luck. The goal is to shift your checkers safely around the game board to your home board while at the same time your opposing player moves their pieces toward their inner board in the opposing direction. With opposing player pieces moving in opposing directions there is going to be conflict and the need for specific techniques at specific instances. Here are the last 2 Backgammon techniques to round out your game.
The Priming Game Tactic
If the purpose of the blocking plan is to slow down the opponent to move her checkers, the Priming Game strategy is to completely stop any movement of the opposing player by creating a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s pieces will either get hit, or end up in a battered position if he ever tries to escape the wall. The ambush of the prime can be established anyplace between point two and point eleven in your game board. After you have successfully constructed the prime to prevent the movement of your opponent, your opponent does not even get to roll the dice, that means you shift your pieces and toss the dice again. You’ll win the game for sure.
The Back Game Tactic
The goals of the Back Game tactic and the Blocking Game technique are very similar – to harm your opponent’s positions with hope to better your odds of succeeding, but the Back Game tactic relies on alternate techniques to achieve that. The Back Game tactic is commonly employed when you are far behind your opponent. To play Backgammon with this tactic, you have to hold 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single piece) late in the game. This tactic is more challenging than others to employ in Backgammon because it requires careful movement of your pieces and how the pieces are moved is partially the result of the dice roll.