As we dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a game of ability and pure luck. The goal is to move your checkers carefully around the game board to your home board while at the same time your opposing player moves their checkers toward their inner board in the opposite direction. With competing player pieces moving in opposite directions there is bound to be conflict and the need for specific techniques at particular times. Here are the two final Backgammon techniques to complete your game.
The Priming Game Tactic
If the purpose of the blocking plan is to slow down the opponent to move her chips, the Priming Game tactic is to absolutely block any movement of the opponent by building a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s checkers will either get hit, or result a damaged position if he/she at all tries to leave the wall. The ambush of the prime can be built anyplace between point two and point 11 in your board. Once you have successfully assembled the prime to prevent the activity of your opponent, your competitor does not even get a chance to roll the dice, and you move your pieces and roll the dice yet again. You’ll be a winner for sure.
The Back Game Tactic
The goals of the Back Game technique and the Blocking Game tactic are very similar – to hinder your competitor’s positions with hope to better your odds of succeeding, but the Back Game strategy relies on seperate techniques to do that. The Back Game technique is generally utilized when you are far behind your competitor. To play Backgammon with this technique, you have to control two or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This plan is more complex than others to use in Backgammon seeing as it requires careful movement of your chips and how the checkers are moved is partially the outcome of the dice toss.
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