As we dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a casino game of skill and pure luck. The aim is to shift your pieces carefully around the board to your home board and at the same time your opposing player shifts their chips toward their inner board in the opposing direction. With competing player chips shifting in opposing directions there is going to be conflict and the requirement for particular tactics at particular times. Here are the last 2 Backgammon tactics to round out your game.
The Priming Game Strategy
If the purpose of the blocking strategy is to slow down the opponent to move their chips, the Priming Game strategy is to absolutely stop any activity of the opponent by creating a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s checkers will either get hit, or result a bad position if he/she at all tries 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. As soon as you’ve successfully assembled the prime to stop the movement of your opponent, the opponent does not even get to toss the dice, that means you move your checkers and roll the dice again. You’ll win the game for sure.
The Back Game Technique
The goals of the Back Game technique and the Blocking Game strategy are similar – to hinder your competitor’s positions in hope to better your chances of succeeding, but the Back Game technique relies on seperate techniques to do that. The Back Game strategy is commonly used when you are far behind your opponent. To play Backgammon with this tactic, you need to control two or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This strategy is more challenging than others to play in Backgammon because it needs careful movement of your checkers and how the pieces are moved is partially the outcome of the dice roll.