The Essential Facts of Backgammon Tactics – Part Two

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As we dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a game of ability and luck. The goal is to shift your pieces carefully around the game board to your inner board while at the same time your opponent shifts their pieces toward their inner board in the opposing direction. With competing player chips heading in opposing directions there is going to be conflict and the need for specific tactics at specific instances. Here are the last two Backgammon plans to round out your game.

The Priming Game Tactic

If the goal of the blocking strategy is to slow down the opponent to move their pieces, the Priming Game tactic is to completely stop any activity of the opponent by building a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s chips will either get hit, or result a bad position if he ever attempts to escape the wall. The trap of the prime can be setup anywhere between point two and point 11 in your half of the board. Once you’ve successfully constructed the prime to prevent the activity of the competitor, the competitor doesn’t even get a chance to toss the dice, that means you shift your chips and toss the dice yet again. You will win the game for sure.

The Back Game Tactic

The objectives of the Back Game technique and the Blocking Game tactic are similar – to hurt your opponent’s positions hoping to better your chances of succeeding, however the Back Game plan utilizes seperate techniques to do that. The Back Game strategy is frequently employed when you’re far behind your competitor. To play Backgammon with this plan, you have to control two or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single piece) late in the game. This tactic is more complex than others to employ in Backgammon seeing as it requires careful movement of your chips and how the pieces are moved is partially the result of the dice toss.