As we have dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a casino game of skill and good luck. The goal is to move your chips safely around the game board to your home board while at the same time your opposing player moves their pieces toward their inside board in the opposite direction. With competing player pieces moving in opposing directions there is bound to be conflict and the need for specific techniques at specific instances. Here are the two final Backgammon tactics to complete your game.
The Priming Game Strategy
If the goal of the blocking strategy is to hamper the opponents ability to shift his pieces, the Priming Game strategy is to absolutely stop any movement of the opponent by assembling a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s checkers will either get bumped, or end up in a damaged position if he at all attempts to leave the wall. The ambush of the prime can be setup anyplace between point 2 and point eleven in your game board. After you have successfully constructed the prime to stop the movement of the competitor, the competitor does not even get to toss the dice, that means you shift your chips and toss the dice again. You will be a winner for sure.
The Back Game Plan
The goals of the Back Game strategy and the Blocking Game technique are similar – to hurt your competitor’s positions hoping to better your odds of succeeding, but the Back Game plan relies on different techniques to do that. The Back Game technique is commonly employed when you are far behind your competitor. To compete in Backgammon with this strategy, you have to control 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single piece) late in the game. This technique is more complex than others to use in Backgammon because it needs careful movement of your checkers and how the checkers are moved is partially the result of the dice roll.
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