As we have dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a game of skill and luck. The goal is to shift your chips carefully around the board to your home board and at the same time your opposing player shifts their checkers toward their inside board in the opposing direction. With opposing player chips heading in opposing directions there is bound to be conflict and the requirement for specific tactics at specific instances. Here are the last 2 Backgammon strategies to round out your game.
The Priming Game Tactic
If the goal of the blocking tactic is to hamper the opponents ability to shift her pieces, the Priming Game tactic is to completely block any movement of the opponent by assembling 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 at all tries to escape the wall. The ambush of the prime can be setup anyplace between point 2 and point eleven in your game board. Once you have successfully assembled the prime to stop the movement of your opponent, the opponent does not even get a chance to roll the dice, and you shift your pieces and toss the dice again. You’ll be a winner for sure.
The Back Game Technique
The aims of the Back Game strategy and the Blocking Game strategy are very similar – to harm your competitor’s positions hoping to better your odds of winning, but the Back Game plan relies on different tactics to do that. The Back Game plan is commonly employed when you’re far behind your competitor. To compete in Backgammon with this technique, you have to control two or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single checker) late in the game. This tactic is more challenging than others to employ in Backgammon because it needs careful movement of your checkers and how the checkers are moved is partly the result of the dice toss.