As we have dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a game of talent and good luck. The aim is to shift your chips carefully around the game board to your inner board while at the same time your opponent moves their chips toward their home board in the opposite direction. With competing player checkers moving in opposite directions there is going to be conflict and the need for particular techniques at particular times. Here are the two final Backgammon techniques to round out your game.
The Priming Game Tactic
If the aim of the blocking strategy is to hamper the opponents ability to move his pieces, the Priming Game strategy is to absolutely stop any activity of the opponent by constructing a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s pieces will either get bumped, or result a battered position if he ever attempts to escape the wall. The trap of the prime can be established anywhere between point two and point eleven in your board. As soon as you have successfully built the prime to stop the activity of your competitor, the opponent does not even get a chance to toss the dice, that means you move your chips and roll the dice yet again. You’ll win the game for sure.
The Back Game Tactic
The goals of the Back Game strategy and the Blocking Game technique are similar – to harm your competitor’s positions with hope to boost your odds of winning, however the Back Game tactic utilizes alternate tactics to do that. The Back Game strategy is commonly employed when you are far behind your opponent. To compete in Backgammon with this plan, you have to hold 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single piece) late in the game. This technique is more complex than others to play in Backgammon because it needs careful movement of your pieces and how the chips are relocated is partly the outcome of the dice toss.
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