As we dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a casino game of skill and pure luck. The goal is to shift your pieces safely around the game board to your home board and at the same time your opponent shifts their chips toward their home board in the opposing direction. With competing player checkers heading in opposing directions there is going to be conflict and the requirement for specific strategies at specific instances. Here are the last 2 Backgammon tactics to round out your game.
The Priming Game Tactic
If the aim of the blocking plan is to slow down the opponent to move her chips, the Priming Game tactic is to absolutely stop any movement of the opponent by building a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s chips will either get bumped, or end up in a bad position if she ever tries to leave the wall. The ambush of the prime can be built anywhere between point two and point 11 in your game board. As soon as you have successfully built the prime to stop the movement of the competitor, your competitor does not even get to roll the dice, and you move your checkers and roll the dice again. You will be a winner for sure.
The Back Game Plan
The goals of the Back Game strategy and the Blocking Game plan are very similar – to hurt your competitor’s positions in hope to boost your odds of winning, but the Back Game technique uses alternate tactics to do that. The Back Game tactic is generally used when you’re far behind your opponent. To play Backgammon with this plan, you have to control two or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This strategy is more complex than others to employ in Backgammon seeing as it needs careful movement of your pieces and how the chips are relocated is partly the result of the dice roll.