As we have dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a game of talent and pure luck. The goal is to shift your checkers safely around the game board to your inside board and at the same time your opposing player moves their chips toward their inside board in the opposite direction. With competing player pieces moving in opposing directions there is going to be conflict and the need for specific strategies at specific times. Here are the 2 final Backgammon tactics to finish off your game.
The Priming Game Plan
If the goal of the blocking plan is to slow down the opponent to shift her checkers, the Priming Game strategy is to absolutely barricade any movement of the opponent by creating a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s checkers will either get hit, or result a bad position if she at all tries to escape the wall. The trap of the prime can be setup anywhere between point two and point eleven in your game board. Once you have successfully constructed the prime to prevent the activity of the competitor, the competitor does not even get to toss the dice, and you shift your pieces and toss the dice again. You will be a winner for sure.
The Back Game Technique
The goals of the Back Game technique and the Blocking Game strategy are similar – to harm your competitor’s positions in hope to better your odds of succeeding, however the Back Game plan uses alternate tactics to achieve that. The Back Game tactic is generally employed when you’re far behind your opponent. To play Backgammon with this technique, you need to control two or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single checker) late in the game. This strategy is more difficult than others to employ in Backgammon because it needs careful movement of your chips and how the checkers are moved is partly the outcome of the dice roll.