Posted by Darien | Posted in Backgammon | Posted on 12-09-2020
As we have dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a game of talent and luck. The goal is to move your pieces safely around the game board to your inner board and at the same time your opposing player shifts their checkers toward their inside board in the opposing direction. With opposing player checkers moving in opposite directions there is bound to be conflict and the requirement for specific strategies at particular times. Here are the 2 final 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 pieces, the Priming Game plan is to absolutely stop any activity of the opponent by creating a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s checkers will either get bumped, or end up in a bad position if he ever attempts to leave the wall. The ambush of the prime can be established anywhere between point two and point 11 in your half of the board. Once you’ve successfully built the prime to prevent the activity of the competitor, the opponent does not even get a chance to toss the dice, and you shift your chips and roll the dice yet again. You’ll be a winner for sure.
The Back Game Technique
The aims of the Back Game strategy and the Blocking Game technique are similar – to hurt your competitor’s positions hoping to improve your chances of winning, but the Back Game tactic uses seperate techniques to achieve that. The Back Game plan is generally employed when you’re far behind your opponent. To play Backgammon with this technique, you have to control two or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single checker) late in the game. This technique is more challenging than others to play in Backgammon because it requires careful movement of your chips and how the chips are moved is partly the outcome of the dice roll.