The Essential Basics of Backgammon Strategies – Part 2

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As we have dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a game of talent and luck. The aim is to shift your checkers carefully around the game board to your inner board and at the same time your opposition shifts their checkers toward their inner board in the opposite direction. With competing player pieces heading in opposite directions there is going to be conflict and the requirement for specific strategies at specific instances. Here are the last 2 Backgammon tactics to complete your game.

The Priming Game Strategy

If the purpose of the blocking plan is to hamper the opponents ability to shift her pieces, the Priming Game plan is to completely barricade any activity of the opposing player by building a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s checkers will either get bumped, or end up in a damaged position if she at all tries to escape the wall. The trap of the prime can be established anyplace between point two and point eleven in your game board. As soon as you have successfully constructed the prime to prevent the activity of the opponent, the opponent doesn’t even get a chance to roll the dice, that means you shift your chips and roll the dice again. You will be a winner for sure.

The Back Game Technique

The objectives of the Back Game technique and the Blocking Game tactic are similar – to harm your competitor’s positions with hope to better your chances of winning, but the Back Game technique uses different techniques to achieve that. The Back Game technique is frequently used when you’re far behind your competitor. To play Backgammon with this tactic, you need to hold two or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This technique is more difficult than others to employ in Backgammon because it requires careful movement of your chips and how the checkers are relocated is partially the result of the dice toss.