As we dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a game of ability and luck. The goal is to shift your chips safely around the game board to your inside board and at the same time your opposing player shifts their pieces toward their inside board in the opposing direction. With opposing player pieces heading in opposite directions there is bound to be conflict and the need for specific tactics at particular instances. Here are the last two Backgammon techniques to round out your game.
The Priming Game Tactic
If the purpose of the blocking strategy is to slow down the opponent to move their 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 checkers will either get hit, or result a bad position if he at all attempts to leave the wall. The ambush of the prime can be setup anywhere between point two and point eleven in your half of the board. Once you’ve successfully constructed the prime to stop the activity of your competitor, your competitor does not even get a chance to toss the dice, and you shift your pieces and toss the dice again. You’ll be a winner for sure.
The Back Game Technique
The objectives of the Back Game tactic and the Blocking Game strategy are very similar – to hinder your competitor’s positions with hope to improve your odds of winning, but the Back Game technique uses different techniques to do that. The Back Game plan is frequently used when you’re far behind your opponent. To play Backgammon with this strategy, you have to control 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single checker) late in the game. This technique is more challenging than others to employ in Backgammon because it requires careful movement of your checkers and how the checkers are moved is partially the outcome of the dice roll.