As we dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a game of skill and luck. The aim is to shift your checkers safely around the board to your home board while at the same time your opposition moves their chips toward their home board in the opposing direction. With competing player pieces moving in opposite directions there is bound to be conflict and the requirement for specific techniques at specific times. Here are the two final Backgammon techniques to finish off your game.
The Priming Game Tactic
If the purpose of the blocking plan is to hamper the opponents ability to move her checkers, the Priming Game strategy is to completely stop any movement of the opponent by creating a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s checkers will either get hit, or end up in a bad position if she ever attempts to escape the wall. The trap of the prime can be established anywhere between point two and point eleven in your half of the board. Once you have successfully assembled the prime to prevent the movement of the competitor, your opponent doesn’t even get to roll the dice, and you shift your checkers and toss the dice again. You’ll win the game for sure.
The Back Game Tactic
The aims of the Back Game technique and the Blocking Game strategy are very similar – to harm your competitor’s positions with hope to better your odds of succeeding, however the Back Game plan utilizes different tactics to achieve that. The Back Game tactic is commonly employed when you are far behind your opponent. To participate in Backgammon with this technique, you have to hold 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This strategy is more difficult than others to employ in Backgammon because it requires careful movement of your chips and how the checkers are moved is partly the outcome of the dice roll.
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