The Essential Facts of Backgammon Tactics – Part 2

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As we dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a casino game of talent and good luck. The aim is to shift your pieces carefully around the board to your inner board and at the same time your opposing player moves their chips toward their home board in the opposing direction. With opposing player checkers moving in opposing directions there is bound to be conflict and the need for particular techniques at specific instances. Here are the last 2 Backgammon tactics to complete your game.

The Priming Game Strategy

If the aim of the blocking strategy is to slow down the opponent to move his checkers, the Priming Game tactic is to absolutely stop any activity of the opposing player by creating a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s pieces will either get bumped, or end up in a bad position if he ever tries to leave the wall. The ambush of the prime can be built anywhere between point 2 and point eleven in your board. After you have successfully built the prime to stop the activity of the opponent, the opponent does not even get to roll the dice, and you move your checkers and roll the dice again. You will win the game for sure.

The Back Game Tactic

The aims of the Back Game tactic and the Blocking Game plan are very similar – to harm your competitor’s positions in hope to boost your odds of winning, but the Back Game plan relies on alternate tactics to do that. The Back Game plan is commonly employed when you are far behind your competitor. To participate in Backgammon with this plan, you need to hold 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This plan is more challenging than others to play in Backgammon because it requires careful movement of your checkers and how the checkers are relocated is partly the outcome of the dice toss.