The Essential Facts of Backgammon Game Plans – Part 2

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As we dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a game of skill and pure luck. The goal is to shift your chips carefully around the game board to your inner board while at the same time your opponent shifts their chips toward their inner board in the opposing direction. With opposing player chips moving in opposing directions there is bound to be conflict and the need for particular strategies at specific instances. Here are the last two Backgammon strategies to round out your game.

The Priming Game Tactic

If the purpose of the blocking tactic is to hamper the opponents ability to shift his pieces, the Priming Game plan is to absolutely block any movement of the opponent by creating a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s pieces will either get hit, or result a bad position if he ever attempts to leave the wall. The trap of the prime can be setup anyplace between point 2 and point eleven in your half of the board. Once you’ve successfully assembled the prime to block the activity of your competitor, the competitor doesn’t even get a chance to roll the dice, and you shift your checkers and roll the dice yet again. You will be a winner for sure.

The Back Game Plan

The aims of the Back Game tactic and the Blocking Game plan are very similar – to hinder your opponent’s positions with hope to better your odds of succeeding, but the Back Game strategy relies on seperate techniques to do that. The Back Game tactic is generally utilized when you are far behind your opponent. To participate in Backgammon with this tactic, you have to hold 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This technique is more complex than others to use in Backgammon seeing as it requires careful movement of your pieces and how the pieces are moved is partly the outcome of the dice toss.