As we have dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a casino game of skill and luck. The goal is to move your checkers carefully around the board to your inside board while at the same time your opponent shifts their pieces toward their inside board in the opposite direction. With competing player checkers moving in opposite directions there is going to be conflict and the need for particular tactics at particular times. Here are the two final Backgammon techniques to complete your game.
The Priming Game Tactic
If the purpose of the blocking tactic is to slow down the opponent to move her pieces, the Priming Game plan is to completely block any movement of the opponent by creating a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s chips will either get bumped, or end up in a damaged position if he/she at all attempts to escape the wall. The ambush of the prime can be built anywhere between point 2 and point eleven in your game board. As soon as you’ve successfully constructed the prime to block the movement of the opponent, your competitor doesn’t even get a chance to roll the dice, that means you move your checkers and toss the dice again. You’ll win the game for sure.
The Back Game Technique
The aims of the Back Game tactic and the Blocking Game tactic are similar – to hurt your competitor’s positions with hope to better your chances of winning, however the Back Game plan uses alternate techniques to do that. The Back Game technique is generally used when you are far behind your opponent. To participate in 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 plan is more difficult than others to employ in Backgammon because it requires careful movement of your pieces and how the pieces are relocated is partially the result of the dice roll.