The Essential Basics of Backgammon Tactics – Part Two

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As we dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a casino game of talent and luck. The aim is to move your pieces carefully around the board to your inside board while at the same time your opposition shifts their chips toward their inside board in the opposite direction. With competing player checkers heading in opposing directions there is going to be conflict and the requirement for specific strategies at specific times. Here are the last two Backgammon techniques to round out your game.

The Priming Game Tactic

If the aim of the blocking tactic is to hamper the opponents ability to move her chips, the Priming Game tactic is to completely block any activity of the opposing player by building a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s checkers will either get bumped, or result a bad position if he at all attempts to escape the wall. The ambush of the prime can be built anywhere between point two and point 11 in your half of the board. As soon as you’ve successfully constructed the prime to stop the movement of your competitor, the competitor doesn’t even get to roll the dice, that means you move your checkers and toss 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 technique are very similar – to hinder your competitor’s positions hoping to improve your odds of succeeding, however the Back Game technique uses different techniques to do that. The Back Game technique is generally used when you are far behind your competitor. To play Backgammon with this plan, you need 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 play in Backgammon because it requires careful movement of your pieces and how the checkers are relocated is partially the result of the dice toss.