As we have dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a game of skill and pure luck. The aim is to move your checkers carefully around the board to your home board while at the same time your opposing player shifts their checkers toward their inside board in the opposite direction. With competing player checkers moving in opposing directions there is bound to be conflict and the requirement for specific tactics at specific times. Here are the last 2 Backgammon techniques to finish off your game.
The Priming Game Strategy
If the aim of the blocking plan is to hamper the opponents ability to shift her pieces, the Priming Game tactic is to absolutely stop any movement of the opposing player by constructing a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s pieces will either get hit, or end up in a bad position if he/she at all tries to leave the wall. The ambush of the prime can be built anyplace between point 2 and point eleven in your board. As soon as you’ve successfully built the prime to prevent the movement of the opponent, your competitor doesn’t even get to roll the dice, and you move your checkers and roll the dice yet again. You will be a winner for sure.
The Back Game Tactic
The objectives of the Back Game technique and the Blocking Game strategy are very similar – to hurt your competitor’s positions in hope to better your chances of succeeding, but the Back Game technique relies on different techniques to do that. The Back Game strategy is commonly used when you’re far behind your competitor. To compete in Backgammon with this plan, you have to control two or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single piece) late in the game. This tactic is more difficult than others to play in Backgammon seeing as it requires careful movement of your chips and how the chips are moved is partly the result of the dice roll.