The Essential Basics of Backgammon Tactics – Part 2

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As we dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a game of skill and luck. The goal is to shift your chips safely around the game board to your inner board and at the same time your opponent moves their checkers toward their inside board in the opposite direction. With competing player chips shifting in opposite directions there is going to be conflict and the need for particular techniques at specific times. Here are the two final Backgammon tactics to round out your game.

The Priming Game Plan

If the aim of the blocking plan is to hamper the opponents ability to shift her pieces, the Priming Game tactic is to absolutely stop any movement of the opponent by assembling a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s checkers will either get bumped, or result a damaged position if he/she at all attempts to escape the wall. The trap of the prime can be setup anyplace between point two and point eleven in your game board. Once you’ve successfully assembled the prime to block the movement of your opponent, the opponent doesn’t even get to roll the dice, that means you shift your chips and toss the dice yet again. You’ll be a winner for sure.

The Back Game Technique

The goals of the Back Game strategy and the Blocking Game technique are similar – to hurt your opponent’s positions hoping to boost your odds of succeeding, however the Back Game strategy uses alternate techniques to achieve that. The Back Game tactic is often utilized when you are far behind your competitor. To participate 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 tactic is more difficult than others to employ in Backgammon because it needs careful movement of your chips and how the chips are relocated is partially the result of the dice toss.