As we have dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a game of ability and pure luck. The aim is to shift your checkers safely around the game board to your inner board and at the same time your opponent shifts their pieces toward their inside board in the opposite direction. With competing player pieces moving in opposing directions there is bound to be conflict and the need for specific strategies at specific times. Here are the last two Backgammon tactics to complete your game.
The Priming Game Tactic
If the aim of the blocking plan is to slow down the opponent to move his checkers, the Priming Game plan is to completely stop any movement of the opposing player by building a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s chips will either get bumped, or end up in a damaged position if he/she ever tries to leave the wall. The ambush of the prime can be established anyplace between point two and point eleven in your half of the board. Once you have successfully assembled the prime to stop the activity of the competitor, your competitor does not even get a chance to toss the dice, and you move your checkers and roll the dice again. You’ll win the game for sure.
The Back Game Strategy
The objectives of the Back Game plan and the Blocking Game technique are very similar – to hurt your opponent’s positions in hope to improve your chances of winning, but the Back Game technique utilizes alternate tactics to do that. The Back Game plan is commonly employed when you are far behind your competitor. To participate in Backgammon with this technique, you need to control two or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single checker) late in the game. This strategy is more difficult than others to use in Backgammon because it needs careful movement of your chips and how the pieces are relocated is partly the result of the dice roll.
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