As we have dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a casino game of skill and luck. The aim is to move your chips carefully around the game board to your inside board while at the same time your opponent shifts their checkers toward their inside board in the opposing direction. With competing player chips heading in opposite directions there is bound to be conflict and the requirement for specific techniques at particular instances. Here are the last two Backgammon techniques to round out your game.
The Priming Game Tactic
If the aim of the blocking tactic is to slow down the opponent to shift their checkers, the Priming Game plan is to absolutely barricade any movement of the opposing player by assembling a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s pieces will either get bumped, or result a bad position if he at all tries to escape the wall. The ambush of the prime can be built anyplace between point 2 and point 11 in your half of the board. As soon as you’ve successfully built the prime to prevent the movement of your competitor, your opponent doesn’t even get to roll the dice, and you shift your pieces and toss the dice again. You will win the game for sure.
The Back Game Tactic
The goals of the Back Game tactic and the Blocking Game plan are similar – to hurt your competitor’s positions with hope to boost your odds of succeeding, however the Back Game plan utilizes seperate tactics to do that. The Back Game technique is often employed when you’re far behind your opponent. To participate in Backgammon with this technique, you have to hold 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single piece) late in the game. This technique is more difficult than others to play in Backgammon because it needs careful movement of your pieces and how the pieces are relocated is partly the result of the dice roll.