The Basics of Backgammon Tactics – Part 2

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As we dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a game of talent and luck. The goal is to move your pieces safely around the board to your inner board and at the same time your opposition moves their chips 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 specific strategies at particular instances. Here are the last 2 Backgammon strategies to complete your game.

The Priming Game Strategy

If the purpose of the blocking plan is to hamper the opponents ability to shift her chips, the Priming Game tactic is to absolutely barricade any activity of the opposing player by assembling a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s chips will either get bumped, or result a bad position if he at all attempts to leave the wall. The trap of the prime can be established anyplace between point 2 and point eleven in your game board. Once you’ve successfully built the prime to stop the movement of the opponent, your opponent doesn’t even get to toss the dice, and you move your chips and roll the dice again. You’ll be a winner for sure.

The Back Game Plan

The aims of the Back Game tactic and the Blocking Game strategy are similar – to hurt your competitor’s positions with hope to better your odds of winning, but the Back Game strategy uses alternate techniques to achieve that. The Back Game technique is generally utilized when you’re far behind your competitor. To compete in Backgammon with this strategy, you need to control 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This tactic is more challenging than others to use in Backgammon seeing as it requires careful movement of your chips and how the chips are moved is partly the result of the dice roll.