As we dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a game of skill and pure luck. The goal is to move your chips safely around the board to your home board while at the same time your opponent moves their checkers toward their inside board in the opposing direction. With competing player checkers heading in opposite directions there is bound to be conflict and the need for particular techniques at specific times. Here are the last two Backgammon plans to round out your game.
The Priming Game Tactic
If the goal of the blocking strategy is to hamper the opponents ability to move his checkers, the Priming Game plan is to completely block any movement of the opposing player by assembling 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 built anyplace between point two and point 11 in your half of the board. After you have successfully constructed the prime to stop the movement of your competitor, your opponent does not even get to toss the dice, and you shift your pieces and toss the dice yet again. You will be a winner for sure.
The Back Game Tactic
The goals of the Back Game strategy and the Blocking Game technique are similar – to harm your competitor’s positions hoping to improve your odds of winning, but the Back Game strategy utilizes alternate tactics to achieve that. The Back Game strategy is generally employed when you’re far behind your opponent. To play Backgammon with this strategy, you need to hold two or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This technique is more challenging than others to use in Backgammon because it needs careful movement of your pieces and how the pieces are relocated is partially the result of the dice roll.