As we have dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a game of skill and pure luck. The aim is to shift your checkers safely around the game board to your home board while at the same time your opponent moves their checkers toward their inside board in the opposing direction. With competing player chips moving in opposite directions there is bound to be conflict and the requirement for specific techniques at specific instances. Here are the 2 final Backgammon tactics to round out your game.
The Priming Game Tactic
If the goal of the blocking strategy is to slow down the opponent to shift her chips, the Priming Game plan is to absolutely barricade any activity of the opposing player by creating a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s chips will either get hit, or result a battered position if he/she at all attempts to leave the wall. The trap of the prime can be setup anyplace between point two and point eleven in your board. Once you’ve successfully constructed the prime to stop the activity of the competitor, the competitor doesn’t even get to toss the dice, and you move your checkers and roll the dice yet again. You will be a winner for sure.
The Back Game Technique
The aims of the Back Game strategy and the Blocking Game plan are similar – to hurt your competitor’s positions hoping to boost your odds of succeeding, however the Back Game strategy relies on seperate techniques to achieve that. The Back Game technique is commonly employed when you are far behind your opponent. To participate in Backgammon with this plan, 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 seeing as it needs careful movement of your chips and how the pieces are relocated is partially the outcome of the dice toss.
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