The Essential Basics of Backgammon Tactics – Part 2
As we have dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a game of talent and good luck. The aim is to shift your pieces carefully around the game board to your inside board and at the same time your opponent moves their pieces toward their home board in the opposite direction. With competing player checkers shifting in opposing directions there is going to be conflict and the need for specific tactics at specific times. Here are the two final Backgammon techniques to complete your game.
The Priming Game Strategy
If the aim of the blocking strategy is to slow down the opponent to shift her pieces, the Priming Game tactic is to absolutely stop any movement of the opponent by constructing a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s pieces will either get hit, or result a damaged position if he/she at all attempts to leave the wall. The ambush of the prime can be setup anyplace between point two and point eleven in your game board. Once you have successfully constructed the prime to block the movement of the opponent, the opponent doesn’t even get a chance to roll the dice, that means you shift your pieces and roll the dice again. You’ll be a winner for sure.
The Back Game Tactic
The goals of the Back Game strategy and the Blocking Game tactic are very similar – to hurt your opponent’s positions with hope to improve your chances of winning, but the Back Game plan uses alternate tactics to do that. The Back Game technique is often employed when you’re far behind your competitor. To compete in Backgammon with this technique, you have to hold two or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single piece) late in the game. This plan is more complex than others to employ in Backgammon seeing as it requires careful movement of your checkers and how the checkers are relocated is partly the result of the dice toss.