As we dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a casino game of ability and good luck. The aim is to move your pieces safely around the board to your inside board and at the same time your opposing player moves their checkers toward their inside board in the opposite direction. With competing player chips moving in opposite directions there is going to be conflict and the requirement for specific techniques at specific instances. Here are the last 2 Backgammon tactics to finish off your game.
The Priming Game Plan
If the goal of the blocking tactic is to hamper the opponents ability to move his chips, the Priming Game strategy is to completely stop any movement of the opponent by building a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s checkers will either get bumped, or end up in a battered position if he/she at all attempts to escape the wall. The ambush of the prime can be established anywhere between point two and point eleven in your game board. After you have successfully built the prime to block the activity of your competitor, your competitor doesn’t even get a chance to toss the dice, and you move your chips and toss the dice again. You will win the game for sure.
The Back Game Strategy
The aims of the Back Game strategy and the Blocking Game plan are similar – to hinder your opponent’s positions with hope to boost your odds of winning, but the Back Game strategy utilizes different tactics to do that. The Back Game technique is often used when you’re far behind your competitor. To play Backgammon with this strategy, you have to control two or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single piece) late in the game. This strategy is more difficult than others to use in Backgammon seeing as it needs careful movement of your pieces and how the pieces are moved is partially the result of the dice roll.