As we have dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a game of ability and good luck. The aim is to move your chips safely around the board to your home board while at the same time your opponent shifts their checkers toward their inner board in the opposing direction. With competing player pieces shifting in opposite directions there is going to be conflict and the requirement for specific strategies at specific instances. Here are the last two Backgammon tactics to round out your game.
The Priming Game Tactic
If the purpose of the blocking strategy is to hamper the opponents ability to move her chips, the Priming Game tactic is to absolutely stop any movement of the opponent by creating a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s pieces will either get bumped, or result a battered position if he/she at all tries to leave the wall. The trap of the prime can be established anyplace between point 2 and point 11 in your game board. After you’ve successfully assembled the prime to stop the activity of your opponent, the opponent does not even get a chance to roll the dice, and you move your pieces and roll the dice again. You’ll win the game for sure.
The Back Game Technique
The objectives of the Back Game technique and the Blocking Game strategy are very similar – to harm your opponent’s positions hoping to better your chances of succeeding, but the Back Game technique relies on seperate tactics to do that. The Back Game strategy is commonly utilized when you are far behind your competitor. To play Backgammon with this plan, you need to hold 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This plan is more complex than others to employ in Backgammon because it requires careful movement of your chips and how the chips are moved is partially the outcome of the dice toss.