As we dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a casino game of talent and pure luck. The goal is to move your chips carefully around the board to your inside board and at the same time your opponent shifts their checkers toward their inside board in the opposite direction. With competing player checkers shifting in opposite directions there is going to be conflict and the requirement for specific strategies at specific times. Here are the last 2 Backgammon tactics to complete your game.
The Priming Game Tactic
If the goal of the blocking strategy is to slow down the opponent to move her checkers, the Priming Game strategy is to completely stop any activity of the opponent by constructing a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s checkers will either get bumped, or end up in a battered position if he/she at all tries to escape the wall. The ambush of the prime can be setup anywhere between point 2 and point 11 in your board. As soon as you have successfully constructed the prime to block the activity of your opponent, the competitor doesn’t even get a chance to toss the dice, that means you move your checkers and toss the dice again. You’ll win the game for sure.
The Back Game Strategy
The objectives of the Back Game strategy and the Blocking Game technique are very similar – to harm your competitor’s positions in hope to better your chances of winning, but the Back Game plan uses seperate tactics to achieve that. The Back Game strategy is commonly used when you are far behind your competitor. To play 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 difficult than others to use in Backgammon because it needs careful movement of your chips and how the checkers are moved is partially the result of the dice toss.