As we dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a casino game of skill and good luck. The goal is to shift your checkers safely around the game board to your home board and at the same time your opponent moves their pieces toward their home board in the opposing direction. With competing player checkers heading in opposite directions there is bound to be conflict and the need for specific tactics at particular instances. Here are the two final Backgammon techniques to finish off your game.
The Priming Game Strategy
If the purpose of the blocking tactic is to slow down the opponent to shift her chips, the Priming Game tactic is to completely barricade any activity of the opponent by assembling a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s chips will either get bumped, or result a battered position if he/she ever tries to escape the wall. The trap of the prime can be built anyplace between point two and point 11 in your board. As soon as you have successfully assembled the prime to prevent the movement of the opponent, the competitor does not even get a chance to toss the dice, and you move your pieces and toss the dice again. You will win the game for sure.
The Back Game Strategy
The objectives of the Back Game strategy and the Blocking Game strategy are similar – to hinder your competitor’s positions with hope to boost your odds of succeeding, however the Back Game strategy uses seperate tactics to achieve that. The Back Game plan is frequently used when you are far behind your competitor. To play Backgammon with this tactic, you need to control 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This tactic is more complex than others to play in Backgammon because it needs careful movement of your chips and how the chips are moved is partly the result of the dice roll.