As we dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a casino game of skill and good luck. The goal is to move your pieces carefully around the board to your home board while at the same time your opposing player shifts their chips toward their inside board in the opposing direction. With opposing player checkers moving in opposite directions there is bound to be conflict and the need for specific tactics at specific instances. Here are the 2 final Backgammon tactics to round out your game.
The Priming Game Plan
If the goal of the blocking plan is to hamper the opponents ability to move their checkers, the Priming Game plan is to completely barricade any movement of the opponent by assembling a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s pieces will either get bumped, or end up in a battered position if he at all attempts to escape the wall. The ambush of the prime can be built anyplace between point two and point 11 in your board. Once you have successfully built the prime to prevent the movement of your opponent, the opponent does not even get to toss the dice, and you move your pieces and roll the dice yet again. You will be a winner for sure.
The Back Game Technique
The objectives of the Back Game technique and the Blocking Game tactic are similar – to harm your competitor’s positions with hope to better your odds of succeeding, but the Back Game tactic relies on alternate tactics to achieve that. The Back Game strategy is often utilized when you are far behind your competitor. To play Backgammon with this technique, you need to control 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This strategy is more complex than others to employ in Backgammon seeing as it requires careful movement of your chips and how the chips are moved is partially the outcome of the dice toss.