As we dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a game of talent and good luck. The aim is to move your pieces safely around the game board to your inner board while at the same time your opposing player moves their pieces toward their home board in the opposing direction. With opposing player chips moving in opposite directions there is going to be conflict and the need for specific strategies at particular instances. Here are the 2 final Backgammon tactics to complete your game.
The Priming Game Tactic
If the goal of the blocking plan is to slow down the opponent to shift his checkers, the Priming Game plan is to absolutely stop any activity of the opponent by assembling a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s chips will either get hit, or end up in a battered position if she ever attempts to escape the wall. The trap of the prime can be setup anywhere between point two and point 11 in your half of the board. Once you have successfully assembled the prime to prevent the activity of the competitor, your competitor doesn’t even get a chance to roll the dice, and you shift your checkers and roll the dice again. You will win the game for sure.
The Back Game Tactic
The aims of the Back Game technique and the Blocking Game technique are very similar – to hurt your opponent’s positions with hope to better your odds of winning, but the Back Game technique uses alternate tactics to achieve that. The Back Game technique is frequently used when you are far behind your competitor. To play Backgammon with this technique, you have to hold two or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This technique is more difficult than others to use in Backgammon because it needs careful movement of your chips and how the checkers are relocated is partly the outcome of the dice roll.