As we dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a game of skill and pure luck. The aim is to shift your chips safely around the board to your home board while at the same time your opposition moves their chips toward their inner board in the opposing direction. With opposing player checkers moving in opposing directions there is going to be conflict and the requirement for particular tactics at specific times. Here are the last 2 Backgammon tactics to finish off your game.
The Priming Game Plan
If the goal of the blocking strategy is to slow down the opponent to move her pieces, the Priming Game plan is to completely stop any activity of the opposing player by assembling a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s pieces will either get hit, or result a battered position if he/she ever attempts to escape the wall. The trap of the prime can be built anyplace between point two and point 11 in your game board. Once you have successfully assembled the prime to block the movement of the opponent, your competitor doesn’t even get to roll the dice, that means you move your checkers and toss the dice again. You will win the game for sure.
The Back Game Technique
The goals of the Back Game plan and the Blocking Game strategy are similar – to hinder your opponent’s positions with hope to improve your chances of succeeding, but the Back Game strategy utilizes seperate tactics to achieve that. The Back Game tactic is often utilized when you are far behind your opponent. To play Backgammon with this strategy, you have to control two or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single piece) late in the game. This strategy is more difficult than others to employ in Backgammon because it requires careful movement of your pieces and how the chips are moved is partly the outcome of the dice toss.