As we dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a casino game of skill and good luck. The goal is to shift your pieces carefully around the game board to your inside board and at the same time your opponent shifts their checkers toward their inner board in the opposite direction. With opposing player checkers heading in opposing directions there is bound to be conflict and the requirement for specific tactics at particular instances. Here are the last 2 Backgammon tactics to round out your game.
The Priming Game Plan
If the purpose of the blocking plan is to slow down the opponent to move his chips, the Priming Game plan is to completely stop any movement of the opponent by constructing a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s pieces will either get hit, or end up in a battered position if he/she ever tries to leave the wall. The ambush of the prime can be setup anyplace between point 2 and point 11 in your game board. After you have successfully built the prime to stop the movement of the opponent, the competitor does not even get to roll the dice, and you move your chips and roll the dice yet again. You will be a winner for sure.
The Back Game Tactic
The goals of the Back Game technique and the Blocking Game strategy are similar – to harm your opponent’s positions with hope to improve your chances of succeeding, however the Back Game strategy utilizes alternate tactics to do that. The Back Game strategy is frequently used when you’re far behind your opponent. To play Backgammon with this strategy, you need to control 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This technique is more challenging than others to use in Backgammon seeing as it requires careful movement of your chips and how the pieces are moved is partly the result of the dice roll.
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