The Essential Details of Backgammon Game Plans – Part Two

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As we have dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a game of skill and pure luck. The aim is to move your chips safely around the board to your inside board while at the same time your opponent moves their checkers toward their home board in the opposing direction. With opposing player pieces moving in opposite directions there is bound to be conflict and the need for particular techniques at specific instances. Here are the last 2 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 pieces, the Priming Game plan is to completely block any activity of the opposing player by creating a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s chips will either get hit, or end up in a bad position if he ever attempts to escape the wall. The trap of the prime can be built anyplace between point 2 and point 11 in your half of the board. Once you’ve successfully built the prime to block the activity of the opponent, the opponent doesn’t even get a chance to roll the dice, and you shift your pieces and roll the dice yet again. You will be a winner for sure.

The Back Game Technique

The goals of the Back Game tactic and the Blocking Game plan are very similar – to hurt your opponent’s positions hoping to boost your odds of succeeding, however the Back Game strategy uses different techniques to do that. The Back Game strategy is often employed when you are far behind your opponent. To compete in Backgammon with this plan, 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 employ in Backgammon because it needs careful movement of your pieces and how the checkers are relocated is partly the result of the dice toss.