As we dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a casino game of ability and luck. The goal is to shift your pieces safely around the game board to your inner board while at the same time your opposition shifts their pieces toward their inside board in the opposite direction. With opposing player chips moving in opposing directions there is going to be conflict and the need for specific strategies at particular times. Here are the two final Backgammon tactics to complete 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 absolutely barricade any movement of the opposing player by creating a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s checkers will either get hit, or end up in a damaged position if he at all tries to escape the wall. The trap of the prime can be built anyplace between point two and point eleven in your half of the board. After you have successfully constructed the prime to prevent the movement of your competitor, the competitor doesn’t even get a chance to toss the dice, and you shift your chips and roll the dice yet again. You will win the game for sure.
The Back Game Plan
The aims of the Back Game plan and the Blocking Game strategy are very similar – to hurt your opponent’s positions hoping to improve your odds of winning, but the Back Game tactic relies on different tactics to achieve that. The Back Game plan is often employed when you are far behind your competitor. To participate in Backgammon with this technique, you need to hold 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single piece) late in the game. This technique is more challenging than others to use in Backgammon seeing as it requires careful movement of your checkers and how the chips are moved is partly the result of the dice toss.