The Essential Facts of Backgammon Strategies – Part 2

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As we have dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a casino game of talent and luck. The goal is to shift your checkers carefully around the board to your home board and at the same time your opposing player moves their chips toward their home board in the opposing direction. With competing player pieces heading in opposite directions there is going to be conflict and the need for specific strategies at particular times. Here are the 2 final Backgammon tactics to round out your game.

The Priming Game Plan

If the aim of the blocking tactic is to slow down the opponent to shift her chips, the Priming Game plan is to absolutely barricade any activity of the opponent by creating a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s pieces will either get hit, or end up in a battered position if he ever tries to leave the wall. The ambush of the prime can be built anywhere between point two and point 11 in your board. Once you have successfully assembled the prime to stop the activity of your opponent, the opponent doesn’t even get a chance to toss the dice, and you move your checkers and toss the dice yet again. You will be a winner for sure.

The Back Game Tactic

The objectives of the Back Game technique and the Blocking Game technique are similar – to hurt your competitor’s positions with hope to boost your odds of succeeding, but the Back Game tactic uses seperate techniques to do that. The Back Game technique is commonly utilized when you are far behind your opponent. To play Backgammon with this strategy, you have to hold 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single piece) late in the game. This strategy is more complex than others to employ in Backgammon seeing as it needs careful movement of your chips and how the pieces are moved is partially the outcome of the dice roll.