The Essential Details of Backgammon Strategies – Part Two

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As we dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a game of talent and pure luck. The goal is to move your chips safely around the board to your inside board while at the same time your opponent moves their chips toward their home board in the opposite direction. With competing player checkers heading in opposite directions there is going to be conflict and the requirement for particular strategies at specific times. Here are the 2 final Backgammon techniques to complete your game.

The Priming Game Strategy

If the goal of the blocking tactic is to hamper the opponents ability to shift their pieces, the Priming Game plan is to absolutely barricade any movement of the opponent by building a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s checkers will either get hit, or result a battered position if he at all attempts to escape the wall. The ambush of the prime can be setup anyplace between point 2 and point 11 in your board. Once you’ve successfully constructed the prime to block the movement of your competitor, your competitor does not even get a chance to toss the dice, that means you move your checkers and toss the dice yet again. You’ll be a winner for sure.

The Back Game Tactic

The goals of the Back Game plan and the Blocking Game strategy are similar – to hinder your competitor’s positions with hope to boost your chances of winning, but the Back Game plan relies on different techniques to do that. The Back Game tactic is generally used when you’re far behind your opponent. To play Backgammon with this strategy, you need to hold 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single checker) late in the game. This tactic is more challenging than others to use in Backgammon seeing as it requires careful movement of your chips and how the pieces are relocated is partially the result of the dice toss.