As we have dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a game of ability and pure luck. The goal is to shift your chips safely around the board to your inside board and at the same time your opposing player moves their pieces toward their home board in the opposing direction. With competing player pieces heading in opposite directions there is going to be conflict and the need for particular techniques at particular instances. Here are the 2 final Backgammon tactics to complete your game.
The Priming Game Plan
If the purpose of the blocking strategy is to hamper the opponents ability to move her checkers, the Priming Game tactic is to absolutely barricade any activity of the opposing player by assembling a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s chips will either get bumped, or end up in a battered position if he/she at all attempts to leave the wall. The ambush of the prime can be built anywhere between point 2 and point 11 in your board. After you’ve successfully built the prime to stop the activity of the competitor, your opponent does not even get a chance to roll the dice, and you move your chips and roll the dice again. You will win the game for sure.
The Back Game Tactic
The aims of the Back Game plan and the Blocking Game technique are very similar – to hinder your opponent’s positions with hope to better your chances of winning, but the Back Game tactic utilizes alternate tactics to do that. The Back Game plan is commonly utilized when you are far behind your opponent. To play Backgammon with this tactic, you have to hold 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single checker) late in the game. This plan is more challenging than others to employ in Backgammon because it requires careful movement of your chips and how the chips are relocated is partially the outcome of the dice roll.