The Essential Details of Backgammon Strategies – Part 2

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As we have dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a casino game of talent and luck. The goal is to shift your checkers safely around the board to your inner board while at the same time your opposing player moves their pieces toward their home board in the opposite direction. With opposing player pieces heading in opposite directions there is bound to be conflict and the need for specific strategies at specific times. Here are the two final Backgammon strategies to complete your game.

The Priming Game Plan

If the goal of the blocking tactic is to hamper the opponents ability to shift his pieces, the Priming Game strategy is to completely barricade any movement of the opposing player by creating a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s chips will either get bumped, or end up in a bad position if he/she at all tries to leave the wall. The ambush of the prime can be built anyplace between point 2 and point eleven in your game board. As soon as you have successfully built the prime to block the activity of your competitor, your competitor doesn’t even get a chance to toss the dice, and you shift your chips and roll the dice again. You will win the game for sure.

The Back Game Strategy

The goals of the Back Game tactic and the Blocking Game strategy are very similar – to hurt your opponent’s positions hoping to improve your chances of winning, but the Back Game tactic relies on seperate techniques to achieve that. The Back Game tactic is often employed when you are far behind your opponent. To compete in 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 plan is more challenging than others to use in Backgammon because it needs careful movement of your chips and how the checkers are relocated is partially the result of the dice roll.