The Essential Facts of Backgammon Strategies – Part 2

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As we dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a game of ability and pure luck. The aim is to shift your pieces safely around the game board to your inside board and at the same time your opposing player moves their checkers toward their home board in the opposite direction. With opposing player pieces moving in opposite directions there is bound to be conflict and the need for particular strategies at particular times. Here are the 2 final Backgammon plans to round out your game.

The Priming Game Plan

If the purpose of the blocking plan is to slow down the opponent to shift their pieces, the Priming Game strategy is to completely barricade any movement of the opponent by building a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s chips will either get bumped, or end up in a battered position if he ever attempts to leave the wall. The ambush of the prime can be built anyplace between point two and point 11 in your half of the board. After you have successfully built the prime to block the activity of your opponent, the opponent does not even get a chance to roll the dice, and you move your chips and roll the dice again. You will win the game for sure.

The Back Game Technique

The objectives of the Back Game tactic and the Blocking Game plan are similar – to hurt your opponent’s positions hoping to better your odds of succeeding, but the Back Game plan uses alternate tactics to do that. The Back Game plan is frequently used when you are far behind your opponent. To play Backgammon with this technique, you need to control two or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single piece) late in the game. This technique is more complex than others to employ in Backgammon because it requires careful movement of your pieces and how the pieces are relocated is partly the outcome of the dice toss.