The Basics of Backgammon Tactics – Part 2

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As we dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a game of ability and luck. The goal is to move your checkers carefully around the game board to your inside board and at the same time your opposition moves their pieces toward their home board in the opposing direction. With competing player checkers shifting in opposite directions there is bound to be conflict and the requirement for particular techniques at particular times. Here are the last two Backgammon techniques to round out your game.

The Priming Game Plan

If the goal of the blocking tactic is to slow down the opponent to shift his chips, the Priming Game strategy is to absolutely stop any movement of the opponent by constructing a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s chips will either get bumped, or result a bad position if she at all tries to escape the wall. The trap of the prime can be setup anywhere between point two and point 11 in your game board. Once you’ve successfully assembled the prime to stop the activity of the competitor, your competitor doesn’t even get a chance to roll the dice, that means you shift your pieces and roll the dice yet again. You will win the game for sure.

The Back Game Technique

The objectives of the Back Game strategy and the Blocking Game plan are similar – to harm your competitor’s positions with hope to better your odds of winning, but the Back Game tactic utilizes alternate tactics to do that. The Back Game plan is frequently used when you’re far behind your opponent. To play Backgammon with this strategy, you have to control two or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single piece) late in the game. This plan is more difficult than others to use in Backgammon because it needs careful movement of your chips and how the chips are moved is partially the result of the dice roll.