As we dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a game of skill and good luck. The aim is to move your chips carefully around the board to your home board and at the same time your opponent shifts their checkers toward their home board in the opposing direction. With opposing player chips heading in opposing directions there is bound to be conflict and the requirement for specific tactics at particular times. Here are the last two Backgammon techniques to finish off your game.
The Priming Game Tactic
If the goal of the blocking tactic is to slow down the opponent to move her checkers, the Priming Game plan is to absolutely barricade any activity of the opposing player by constructing a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s chips will either get hit, or result a bad position if she at all attempts to escape the wall. The trap of the prime can be setup anyplace between point 2 and point eleven in your board. After you’ve successfully constructed the prime to block the movement of the opponent, the opponent doesn’t even get to roll the dice, and you shift your checkers and toss the dice yet again. You will win the game for sure.
The Back Game Strategy
The aims of the Back Game tactic and the Blocking Game plan are very similar – to hurt your opponent’s positions with hope to improve your chances of winning, but the Back Game strategy uses different techniques to do that. The Back Game technique is generally utilized when you’re far behind your competitor. To participate in Backgammon with this tactic, you have to control 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single piece) late in the game. This strategy is more complex than others to employ in Backgammon because it requires careful movement of your checkers and how the pieces are moved is partly the result of the dice roll.