As we have dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a game of ability and pure luck. The goal is to shift your chips safely around the game board to your inside board while at the same time your opposing player shifts their pieces toward their inner board in the opposing direction. With competing player chips moving in opposing directions there is bound to be conflict and the requirement for particular techniques at specific instances. Here are the two 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 chips, the Priming Game plan is to completely block any activity of the opposing player by constructing a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s chips will either get hit, or result a bad position if she at all tries to leave the wall. The ambush of the prime can be built anywhere between point two and point eleven in your half of the board. After you’ve successfully assembled the prime to stop the movement of your competitor, your competitor doesn’t even get a chance to roll the dice, that means you move your pieces and roll the dice yet again. You’ll win the game for sure.
The Back Game Technique
The goals of the Back Game tactic and the Blocking Game strategy are similar – to hurt your opponent’s positions in hope to improve your chances of succeeding, however the Back Game strategy relies on different techniques to achieve that. The Back Game plan is generally used when you are far behind your opponent. To play Backgammon with this technique, you have to control 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This tactic is more challenging than others to employ in Backgammon because it requires careful movement of your pieces and how the pieces are relocated is partially the outcome of the dice toss.