The Essential Details of Backgammon Tactics – Part 2
As we dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a casino game of skill and luck. The goal is to shift your pieces safely around the board to your home board while at the same time your opponent moves their pieces toward their inner board in the opposite direction. With competing player pieces heading in opposing directions there is bound to be conflict and the requirement for particular strategies at specific times. Here are the two final Backgammon tactics to complete your game.
The Priming Game Tactic
If the purpose of the blocking tactic is to slow down the opponent to shift his checkers, the Priming Game strategy is to absolutely stop any activity of the opponent by building a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s checkers will either get bumped, or result a battered position if she ever tries to leave the wall. The trap of the prime can be established anyplace between point two and point 11 in your half of the board. Once you have successfully built the prime to prevent the movement of the competitor, the competitor does not even get to toss the dice, and you shift your checkers and toss the dice yet again. You will win the game for sure.
The Back Game Plan
The objectives of the Back Game plan and the Blocking Game plan are similar – to harm your competitor’s positions hoping to improve your odds of winning, but the Back Game strategy uses alternate tactics to achieve that. The Back Game technique is commonly used when you’re far behind your opponent. To play Backgammon with this tactic, you need to hold 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This technique is more complex than others to use in Backgammon seeing as it requires careful movement of your checkers and how the pieces are relocated is partially the result of the dice roll.
