The Essential Details of Backgammon Tactics – Part 2
As we dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a casino game of skill and pure luck. The goal is to shift your chips carefully around the board to your home board while at the same time your opposing player moves their chips toward their inner board in the opposing direction. With opposing player checkers shifting in opposite directions there is going to be conflict and the need for particular tactics at specific times. Here are the last two Backgammon strategies to finish off your game.
The Priming Game Tactic
If the aim of the blocking strategy is to slow down the opponent to move their checkers, the Priming Game plan is to completely block any movement of the opposing player by constructing a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s chips will either get hit, or end up in a bad position if he/she at all tries to leave the wall. The trap of the prime can be built anyplace between point two and point eleven in your board. After you have successfully built the prime to stop the activity of your competitor, your competitor doesn’t even get a chance to roll the dice, and you shift your pieces and toss the dice again. You will be a winner for sure.
The Back Game Tactic
The objectives of the Back Game strategy and the Blocking Game technique are similar – to hinder your opponent’s positions in hope to boost your odds of winning, but the Back Game tactic relies on alternate techniques to do that. The Back Game technique is often employed when you’re far behind your competitor. To compete in Backgammon with this plan, you need to control 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single piece) late in the game. This tactic is more complex than others to play in Backgammon because it needs careful movement of your checkers and how the checkers are moved is partially the result of the dice roll.

