As we have dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a game of skill and good luck. The aim is to move your checkers carefully around the board to your inside board while at the same time your opposition shifts their chips toward their inner board in the opposite direction. With opposing player chips moving in opposing directions there is bound to be conflict and the need for specific strategies at specific instances. Here are the 2 final Backgammon tactics to complete your game.
The Priming Game Tactic
If the aim of the blocking tactic is to slow down the opponent to shift his checkers, the Priming Game tactic is to completely stop any activity of the opponent by building 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 escape the wall. The ambush of the prime can be established anywhere between point 2 and point 11 in your board. Once you’ve successfully constructed the prime to block the movement of your opponent, your competitor doesn’t even get to toss the dice, and you move your pieces and toss the dice again. You’ll win the game for sure.
The Back Game Technique
The aims of the Back Game technique and the Blocking Game strategy are very similar – to hurt your competitor’s positions in hope to improve your chances of succeeding, but the Back Game plan uses different tactics to achieve that. The Back Game plan is commonly used when you are far behind your opponent. To participate in Backgammon with this technique, you need to hold two or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This tactic is more challenging than others to play in Backgammon because it needs careful movement of your pieces and how the chips are moved is partly the result of the dice toss.