As we dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a game of skill and luck. The aim is to shift your checkers carefully around the board to your inside board and at the same time your opponent moves their checkers toward their home board in the opposite direction. With opposing player chips shifting in opposing directions there is going to be conflict and the need for particular techniques at particular times. Here are the 2 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 move her pieces, the Priming Game tactic is to absolutely block any movement of the opposing player by building a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s pieces will either get hit, or end up in a battered position if she at all attempts to leave the wall. The trap of the prime can be setup anyplace between point 2 and point eleven in your game board. Once you have successfully built the prime to prevent the movement of the opponent, your competitor doesn’t even get to toss the dice, and you move your chips and roll the dice again. You’ll be a winner for sure.
The Back Game Plan
The goals of the Back Game tactic and the Blocking Game technique are very similar – to harm your competitor’s positions hoping to boost your odds of winning, but the Back Game plan relies on alternate techniques to achieve that. The Back Game tactic is frequently employed when you’re far behind your competitor. To play Backgammon with this plan, you need to control two or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This tactic is more challenging than others to employ in Backgammon because it needs careful movement of your pieces and how the pieces are relocated is partly the outcome of the dice roll.