As we dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a game of ability and good luck. The aim is to shift your pieces carefully around the game board to your home board and at the same time your opposition shifts their checkers toward their home board in the opposing direction. With competing player chips heading in opposing directions there is going to be conflict and the requirement for particular tactics at particular times. Here are the two final Backgammon tactics to round out your game.
The Priming Game Tactic
If the aim of the blocking strategy is to slow down the opponent to shift her checkers, the Priming Game tactic is to absolutely block any activity of the opposing player by assembling a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s chips will either get hit, or end up in a bad position if he at all attempts to leave the wall. The trap of the prime can be established anyplace between point 2 and point eleven in your board. Once you’ve successfully built the prime to stop the activity of the competitor, the competitor doesn’t even get to toss the dice, that means you move your chips and toss the dice again. You will be a winner for sure.
The Back Game Strategy
The goals of the Back Game technique and the Blocking Game technique are very similar – to hinder your opponent’s positions hoping to better your odds of succeeding, however the Back Game strategy relies on alternate techniques to do that. The Back Game tactic is often employed when you are far behind your opponent. To play Backgammon with this technique, you need to hold 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 seeing as it requires careful movement of your pieces and how the chips are relocated is partially the outcome of the dice toss.
