The Essential Details of Backgammon Strategies – Part 2

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As we have dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a casino game of skill and pure luck. The aim is to move your checkers carefully around the game board to your inside board and at the same time your opposition shifts their chips toward their inner board in the opposite direction. With opposing player checkers heading in opposite directions there is going to be conflict and the requirement for particular tactics at particular instances. Here are the two final Backgammon techniques to finish off your game.

The Priming Game Strategy

If the purpose of the blocking strategy is to hamper the opponents ability to move his chips, the Priming Game strategy is to absolutely barricade any movement of the opponent by creating a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s checkers will either get hit, or end up in a bad position if she at all attempts to leave the wall. The trap of the prime can be setup anyplace between point two and point 11 in your board. As soon as you’ve successfully constructed the prime to stop the movement of the competitor, the competitor doesn’t even get to toss the dice, that means you move your pieces and roll the dice yet again. You will be a winner for sure.

The Back Game Tactic

The objectives of the Back Game tactic and the Blocking Game plan are very similar – to hurt your competitor’s positions with hope to improve your chances of winning, however the Back Game plan relies on alternate tactics to achieve that. The Back Game strategy is commonly employed when you’re far behind your competitor. To play Backgammon with this technique, you have to hold 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This plan is more difficult than others to employ in Backgammon seeing as it needs careful movement of your checkers and how the pieces are moved is partly the result of the dice toss.