As we have dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a game of ability and good luck. The aim is to move your pieces carefully around the board to your home board while at the same time your opposing player moves their checkers toward their inside board in the opposing direction. With competing player checkers shifting in opposing directions there is going to be conflict and the need for specific tactics at specific times. Here are the last 2 Backgammon techniques to complete your game.
The Priming Game Plan
If the goal of the blocking strategy is to slow down the opponent to shift their chips, the Priming Game strategy is to completely barricade any movement of the opponent by creating a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s checkers will either get bumped, or result a bad position if he ever tries to escape the wall. The trap of the prime can be established anywhere between point 2 and point 11 in your half of the board. After you’ve successfully constructed the prime to stop the activity of your opponent, your opponent does not even get a chance to roll the dice, that means you move your chips and toss the dice yet again. You’ll be a winner for sure.
The Back Game Tactic
The aims of the Back Game technique and the Blocking Game plan are very similar – to hurt your opponent’s positions in hope to improve your odds of winning, but the Back Game technique relies on different techniques to do that. The Back Game technique is commonly used when you’re far behind your competitor. To compete in Backgammon with this plan, 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 play in Backgammon seeing as it needs careful movement of your checkers and how the checkers are moved is partially the outcome of the dice roll.
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