As we have dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a game of ability and pure luck. The aim is to shift your checkers carefully around the game board to your home board and at the same time your opposition shifts their chips toward their home board in the opposing direction. With competing player checkers shifting in opposite directions there is bound to be conflict and the need for particular strategies at specific times. Here are the 2 final Backgammon tactics to round out your game.
The Priming Game Tactic
If the goal of the blocking plan is to slow down the opponent to shift their pieces, the Priming Game tactic is to completely barricade any activity of the opponent by constructing a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s checkers will either get hit, or end up in a battered position if he ever tries to leave the wall. The ambush of the prime can be built anyplace between point two and point eleven in your half of the board. As soon as you’ve successfully built the prime to stop the activity of your competitor, the opponent doesn’t even get a chance to roll the dice, that means you move your chips and roll the dice yet again. You’ll win the game for sure.
The Back Game Strategy
The aims of the Back Game technique and the Blocking Game plan are very similar – to harm your competitor’s positions hoping to better your chances of succeeding, but the Back Game technique relies on different techniques to do that. The Back Game technique is generally utilized when you’re far behind your opponent. To compete in Backgammon with this tactic, you need to control 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single checker) late in the game. This plan is more complex than others to use in Backgammon because it needs careful movement of your chips and how the chips are relocated is partially the outcome of the dice roll.
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