The Essential Details of Backgammon Game Plans – Part Two

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As we have dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a game of skill and luck. The aim is to shift your pieces carefully around the board to your home board while at the same time your opposing player moves their pieces toward their inner board in the opposing direction. With opposing player pieces shifting in opposing directions there is bound to be conflict and the need for particular techniques at particular instances. Here are the last 2 Backgammon techniques to complete your game.

The Priming Game Plan

If the aim of the blocking strategy is to slow down the opponent to move her pieces, the Priming Game plan is to completely block any movement of the opposing player by building a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s chips will either get bumped, or result a bad position if she ever tries to escape the wall. The ambush of the prime can be setup anywhere between point 2 and point eleven in your board. After you have successfully built the prime to block the movement of the competitor, your competitor doesn’t even get to roll the dice, that means you move your pieces and roll the dice again. You’ll be a winner for sure.

The Back Game Technique

The aims of the Back Game technique and the Blocking Game technique are similar – to hinder your opponent’s positions hoping to better your chances of winning, however the Back Game technique relies on different techniques to achieve that. The Back Game tactic is commonly used when you are far behind your competitor. To compete in Backgammon with this strategy, you have to hold two or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This tactic is more challenging than others to employ in Backgammon because it needs careful movement of your checkers and how the checkers are relocated is partially the outcome of the dice roll.