As we have dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a game of skill and pure luck. The aim is to shift your checkers carefully around the game board to your inside board while at the same time your opposition shifts their chips toward their inner board in the opposing direction. With competing player chips moving in opposite directions there is going to be conflict and the need for particular techniques at particular times. Here are the two final Backgammon tactics to finish off your game.
The Priming Game Plan
If the aim of the blocking strategy is to slow down the opponent to move her pieces, the Priming Game tactic is to absolutely block any movement of the opponent by creating a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s pieces will either get bumped, or result a damaged position if he at all tries to leave the wall. The ambush of the prime can be established anyplace between point two and point 11 in your half of the board. Once you have successfully built the prime to block the movement of the opponent, the opponent doesn’t even get to roll the dice, that means you shift your pieces and toss the dice yet again. You’ll win the game for sure.
The Back Game Tactic
The objectives of the Back Game tactic and the Blocking Game strategy are very similar – to hurt your opponent’s positions in hope to improve your odds of succeeding, however the Back Game technique utilizes alternate tactics to achieve that. The Back Game strategy is commonly employed when you are far behind your competitor. To compete in Backgammon with this tactic, you need to control 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single piece) late in the game. This technique is more difficult than others to use in Backgammon because it needs careful movement of your chips and how the checkers are moved is partially the result of the dice toss.
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