As we have dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a casino game of talent and pure luck. The aim is to shift your chips carefully around the board to your inside board and at the same time your opposing player shifts their chips toward their inside board in the opposing direction. With opposing player pieces moving in opposite directions there is going to be conflict and the need for specific strategies at particular instances. Here are the last two Backgammon tactics to complete your game.
The Priming Game Plan
If the aim of the blocking plan is to hamper the opponents ability to move his checkers, the Priming Game strategy is to completely barricade any activity of the opponent by creating a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s pieces will either get bumped, or result a bad position if she at all attempts to escape the wall. The ambush of the prime can be setup anywhere between point 2 and point 11 in your game board. After you have successfully constructed the prime to prevent the movement of the opponent, your competitor does not even get to roll the dice, and you move your chips and toss the dice again. You’ll win the game for sure.
The Back Game Tactic
The goals of the Back Game technique and the Blocking Game technique are very similar – to harm your competitor’s positions in hope to better your odds of succeeding, but the Back Game plan utilizes seperate tactics to achieve that. The Back Game tactic is often employed when you are far behind your opponent. To participate in Backgammon with this plan, 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 complex than others to play in Backgammon because it requires careful movement of your checkers and how the pieces are moved is partially the outcome of the dice roll.