As we have dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a game of ability and luck. The aim is to move your chips carefully around the board to your home board and at the same time your opposition moves their checkers toward their inner board in the opposing direction. With competing player pieces heading in opposite directions there is bound to be conflict and the requirement for particular strategies at specific times. Here are the two final Backgammon tactics to round out your game.
The Priming Game Strategy
If the goal of the blocking plan is to hamper the opponents ability to shift his checkers, the Priming Game strategy is to completely barricade any movement of the opponent by building a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s chips will either get hit, or result a damaged position if he/she at all tries to leave the wall. The ambush of the prime can be setup anywhere between point two and point eleven in your game board. After you’ve successfully constructed the prime to block the activity of your opponent, your competitor does not even get a chance to toss the dice, and you move your chips and roll the dice yet again. You’ll win the game for sure.
The Back Game Plan
The goals of the Back Game technique and the Blocking Game technique are very similar – to harm your competitor’s positions in hope to improve your chances of succeeding, however the Back Game tactic utilizes different techniques to do that. The Back Game tactic is generally utilized when you are far behind your competitor. To play Backgammon with this technique, you have to control two 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 use in Backgammon seeing as it needs careful movement of your pieces and how the chips are moved is partially the outcome of the dice toss.