As we dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a game of skill and luck. The aim is to shift your checkers carefully around the game board to your inside board while at the same time your opponent shifts their checkers toward their home board in the opposite direction. With opposing player checkers moving in opposite directions there is going to be conflict and the need for particular strategies at specific instances. Here are the last two Backgammon tactics to complete your game.
The Priming Game Tactic
If the purpose of the blocking strategy is to slow down the opponent to shift their chips, the Priming Game strategy is to completely stop any movement of the opponent by creating a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s pieces will either get bumped, or end up in a battered position if he/she ever tries to escape the wall. The trap of the prime can be setup anywhere between point 2 and point 11 in your half of the board. As soon as you’ve successfully assembled the prime to block the activity of your competitor, the opponent does not even get to roll the dice, and you shift your pieces and roll the dice yet again. You’ll be a winner for sure.
The Back Game Strategy
The objectives of the Back Game strategy and the Blocking Game plan are similar – to hinder your competitor’s positions with hope to improve your chances of winning, but the Back Game strategy utilizes seperate tactics to do that. The Back Game tactic is commonly utilized when you’re far behind your competitor. To compete in Backgammon with this strategy, you have to control two or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single checker) late in the game. This technique is more difficult than others to employ in Backgammon seeing as it requires careful movement of your checkers and how the checkers are moved is partially the outcome of the dice roll.