The Basics of Backgammon Strategies – Part Two

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As we have dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a casino game of ability and luck. The goal is to shift your chips carefully around the game board to your inner board while at the same time your opponent moves their checkers toward their inside board in the opposite direction. With competing player checkers moving in opposite directions there is going to be conflict and the requirement for particular tactics at particular times. Here are the 2 final Backgammon tactics to round out your game.

The Priming Game Tactic

If the aim of the blocking tactic is to hamper the opponents ability to shift his checkers, the Priming Game tactic is to completely barricade any movement of the opponent by assembling a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s pieces will either get bumped, or result a damaged position if he/she at all attempts to leave the wall. The ambush of the prime can be built anyplace between point two and point 11 in your board. After you have successfully constructed the prime to prevent the activity of your competitor, the competitor doesn’t even get a chance to toss the dice, and you move your checkers and toss the dice yet again. You will be a winner for sure.

The Back Game Strategy

The goals of the Back Game tactic and the Blocking Game technique are similar – to harm your competitor’s positions with hope to better your odds of succeeding, but the Back Game tactic utilizes seperate techniques to do that. The Back Game strategy is commonly utilized when you’re far behind your opponent. To play Backgammon with this strategy, you have to hold two or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single checker) late in the game. This technique is more complex than others to play in Backgammon because it requires careful movement of your chips and how the checkers are relocated is partially the outcome of the dice toss.