The Essential Basics of Backgammon Strategies – Part Two

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As we dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a casino game of skill and good luck. The aim is to shift your chips carefully around the game board to your inside board and at the same time your opposition moves their chips toward their inner board in the opposite direction. With opposing player pieces heading in opposing directions there is going to be conflict and the need for particular techniques at specific instances. Here are the last two Backgammon tactics to round out your game.

The Priming Game Tactic

If the purpose of the blocking plan is to hamper the opponents ability to shift their checkers, the Priming Game tactic is to absolutely stop any activity of the opposing player by creating a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s chips will either get bumped, or result a damaged position if she ever attempts to escape the wall. The trap of the prime can be built anywhere between point two and point eleven in your board. Once you have successfully built the prime to prevent the activity of the opponent, your competitor doesn’t even get to toss the dice, that means you shift your pieces and toss the dice again. You’ll win the game for sure.

The Back Game Technique

The goals of the Back Game strategy and the Blocking Game tactic are very similar – to hinder your opponent’s positions in hope to boost your chances of succeeding, but the Back Game tactic utilizes different techniques to achieve that. The Back Game strategy is commonly used when you’re far behind your competitor. To participate in Backgammon with this strategy, you have to hold 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This strategy is more difficult than others to play in Backgammon seeing as it needs careful movement of your chips and how the pieces are relocated is partly the result of the dice toss.