As we dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a game of talent and pure luck. The aim is to shift your checkers safely around the game board to your home board and at the same time your opposition shifts their pieces toward their inside board in the opposite direction. With competing player pieces shifting in opposing directions there is going to be conflict and the need for particular techniques at specific times. Here are the last two Backgammon tactics to finish off your game.
The Priming Game Tactic
If the purpose of the blocking strategy is to hamper the opponents ability to shift her checkers, the Priming Game plan is to completely stop any activity of the opposing player by creating a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s checkers will either get hit, or end up in a battered position if he ever attempts to leave the wall. The ambush of the prime can be setup anyplace between point two and point eleven in your half of the board. After you have successfully constructed the prime to block the movement of your opponent, the competitor doesn’t even get a chance to roll the dice, that means you move your checkers and roll the dice again. You will be a winner for sure.
The Back Game Tactic
The objectives of the Back Game technique and the Blocking Game plan are similar – to hurt your competitor’s positions with hope to improve your odds of winning, however the Back Game technique utilizes different tactics to achieve that. The Back Game technique is commonly used when you are far behind your competitor. To participate in Backgammon with this technique, you have to hold 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single checker) late in the game. This tactic is more challenging than others to use in Backgammon seeing as it requires careful movement of your checkers and how the pieces are moved is partly the outcome of the dice toss.
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