As we have dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a casino game of talent and good luck. The goal is to move your pieces safely around the game board to your home board and at the same time your opponent shifts their chips toward their inside board in the opposite direction. With competing player checkers heading in opposite directions there is bound to be conflict and the need for specific strategies at specific times. Here are the last 2 Backgammon tactics to round out your game.
The Priming Game Strategy
If the purpose of the blocking tactic is to slow down the opponent to move their chips, the Priming Game strategy is to absolutely barricade any activity of the opponent by creating a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s pieces will either get hit, or end up in a battered position if she ever attempts to escape the wall. The ambush of the prime can be established anyplace between point two and point 11 in your board. Once you have successfully constructed the prime to prevent the activity of your competitor, the opponent does not even get to toss the dice, that means you move your pieces and toss the dice yet again. You’ll win the game for sure.
The Back Game Tactic
The goals of the Back Game technique and the Blocking Game tactic are similar – to harm your opponent’s positions in hope to better your odds of succeeding, but the Back Game plan relies on different techniques to achieve that. The Back Game strategy is frequently employed when you’re far behind your opponent. To play Backgammon with this technique, you have to hold 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This tactic is more complex than others to play in Backgammon because it requires careful movement of your checkers and how the pieces are moved is partly the outcome of the dice roll.