The Basics of Backgammon Tactics – Part 2
As we have dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a casino game of talent and good luck. The aim is to move your pieces carefully around the board to your home board while at the same time your opposing player moves their chips toward their inner board in the opposite direction. With opposing player chips shifting in opposite directions there is going to be conflict and the need for specific tactics at specific instances. Here are the last 2 Backgammon techniques to complete your game.
The Priming Game Tactic
If the goal of the blocking strategy is to slow down the opponent to shift her checkers, the Priming Game strategy is to absolutely stop any movement of the opposing player by constructing a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s pieces will either get hit, or end up in a damaged position if he/she at all attempts to escape the wall. The ambush of the prime can be established anywhere between point 2 and point 11 in your half of the board. After you’ve successfully built the prime to stop the activity of your competitor, the competitor does not even get to toss the dice, that means you shift your checkers and roll the dice again. You will win the game for sure.
The Back Game Plan
The objectives of the Back Game plan and the Blocking Game strategy are very similar – to hinder your competitor’s positions with hope to improve your odds of winning, but the Back Game plan utilizes different tactics to achieve that. The Back Game technique is often used when you’re far behind your competitor. To play 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 employ in Backgammon because it needs careful movement of your checkers and how the checkers are relocated is partially the result of the dice roll.