As we have dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a casino game of skill and luck. The goal is to shift your chips safely around the board to your inner board and at the same time your opponent moves their checkers toward their home board in the opposing direction. With opposing player checkers shifting in opposite directions there is bound to be conflict and the need for specific strategies at specific instances. Here are the last 2 Backgammon tactics to complete your game.
The Priming Game Strategy
If the aim of the blocking strategy is to slow down the opponent to move their chips, the Priming Game strategy is to completely stop any activity of the opposing player by creating a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s pieces will either get bumped, or end up in a battered position if he/she ever tries to leave the wall. The ambush of the prime can be established anywhere between point two and point 11 in your board. Once you have successfully constructed the prime to block the activity of the competitor, your opponent does not even get to toss the dice, that means you shift your chips and toss the dice yet again. You will win the game for sure.
The Back Game Technique
The goals of the Back Game strategy and the Blocking Game strategy are similar – to harm your competitor’s positions hoping to boost your odds of winning, however the Back Game plan utilizes seperate techniques to achieve that. The Back Game strategy is generally utilized when you are far behind your opponent. To play Backgammon with this tactic, you need to hold two or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single checker) late in the game. This technique is more complex than others to employ in Backgammon seeing as it requires careful movement of your checkers and how the pieces are relocated is partially the outcome of the dice roll.