The Essential Details of Backgammon Tactics – Part 2
As we dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a casino game of skill and pure luck. The goal is to shift your chips carefully around the board to your inside board and at the same time your opponent moves their checkers toward their home board in the opposing direction. With competing player chips heading in opposite directions there is bound to be conflict and the need for particular techniques at particular times. Here are the last two Backgammon tactics to complete your game.
The Priming Game Plan
If the aim of the blocking tactic is to slow down the opponent to move his pieces, the Priming Game strategy is to completely stop any movement of the opponent by assembling a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s pieces will either get bumped, or end up in a damaged position if he ever tries to leave the wall. The ambush of the prime can be established anywhere between point two and point 11 in your board. Once you’ve successfully assembled the prime to stop the movement of the competitor, the competitor does not even get to toss the dice, that means you shift your chips and toss the dice yet again. You will be a winner for sure.
The Back Game Tactic
The objectives of the Back Game strategy and the Blocking Game tactic are very similar – to harm your competitor’s positions with hope to better your chances of succeeding, but the Back Game tactic utilizes alternate tactics to achieve that. The Back Game plan is generally employed when you are far behind your competitor. To participate in Backgammon with this technique, you need to hold two or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This strategy is more challenging than others to use in Backgammon seeing as it requires careful movement of your chips and how the checkers are relocated is partially the outcome of the dice roll.
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