The Essential Details of Backgammon Strategies – Part 2

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As we have dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a game of skill and good luck. The goal is to move your checkers safely around the game board to your inner board while at the same time your opposition shifts their pieces toward their inner board in the opposite direction. With opposing player chips heading in opposing directions there is bound to be conflict and the requirement for specific strategies at particular times. Here are the two final Backgammon tactics to round out your game.

The Priming Game Strategy

If the goal of the blocking strategy is to slow down the opponent to shift their checkers, the Priming Game plan is to completely stop any movement of the opposing player by building a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s chips will either get hit, or result a battered position if he ever attempts to leave the wall. The ambush of the prime can be built anywhere between point 2 and point 11 in your game board. After you have successfully constructed the prime to block the movement of your competitor, the competitor doesn’t even get a chance to roll the dice, that means you shift your pieces and roll the dice yet again. You’ll be a winner for sure.

The Back Game Technique

The goals of the Back Game tactic and the Blocking Game technique are very similar – to hinder your competitor’s positions with hope to improve your odds of succeeding, but the Back Game tactic uses alternate tactics to achieve that. The Back Game plan is often utilized when you are far behind your competitor. To compete in Backgammon with this strategy, you have to control 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This technique is more complex than others to play in Backgammon because it requires careful movement of your checkers and how the checkers are moved is partially the outcome of the dice toss.