As we have dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a casino game of skill and good luck. The goal is to move your checkers safely around the board to your home board and at the same time your opponent moves their chips toward their home board in the opposite direction. With opposing player chips moving in opposite directions there is going to be conflict and the need for specific tactics at specific times. Here are the two final Backgammon tactics to round out your game.
The Priming Game Strategy
If the aim of the blocking strategy is to slow down the opponent to shift her chips, the Priming Game tactic is to completely stop any activity of the opposing player by assembling a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s chips will either get bumped, or result a bad position if he/she at all tries to leave the wall. The ambush of the prime can be built anywhere between point two and point eleven in your game board. Once you have successfully built the prime to prevent the activity of your competitor, the competitor doesn’t even get a chance to toss the dice, and you shift your pieces and toss the dice again. You will win the game for sure.
The Back Game Technique
The objectives of the Back Game tactic and the Blocking Game plan are very similar – to hinder your opponent’s positions in hope to improve your chances of winning, but the Back Game strategy utilizes seperate techniques to achieve that. The Back Game tactic is frequently utilized when you are 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 late in the game. This technique is more challenging than others to employ in Backgammon seeing as it needs careful movement of your pieces and how the chips are moved is partially the outcome of the dice roll.