The Essential Facts of Backgammon Tactics – Part Two

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As we have dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a game of talent and pure luck. The aim is to shift your checkers carefully around the board to your inside board while at the same time your opponent moves their pieces toward their home board in the opposing direction. With opposing player chips heading in opposite directions there is going to be conflict and the requirement for particular strategies at specific times. Here are the two final Backgammon techniques to round out your game.

The Priming Game Tactic

If the aim of the blocking strategy is to hamper the opponents ability to move their pieces, the Priming Game plan is to completely barricade any activity of the opposing player by building a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s pieces will either get bumped, or result a bad position if she at all attempts to leave the wall. The trap of the prime can be setup anywhere between point 2 and point eleven in your board. As soon as you’ve successfully constructed the prime to block the activity of your competitor, the competitor doesn’t even get to roll the dice, and you shift your pieces and toss the dice yet again. You’ll be a winner for sure.

The Back Game Strategy

The goals of the Back Game strategy and the Blocking Game technique are very similar – to hurt your opponent’s positions with hope to better your chances of winning, but the Back Game tactic utilizes seperate tactics to do that. The Back Game tactic is generally utilized when you’re far behind your opponent. To compete in Backgammon with this tactic, you have to control 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single piece) late in the game. This tactic is more complex than others to play in Backgammon because it needs careful movement of your pieces and how the chips are moved is partly the outcome of the dice toss.