The Essential Basics of Backgammon Tactics – Part Two

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As we have dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a game of talent and luck. The aim is to move your chips carefully around the board to your inner board while at the same time your opposing player moves their chips toward their inside board in the opposing direction. With competing player pieces heading in opposing directions there is bound to be conflict and the requirement for particular techniques at specific instances. Here are the last two Backgammon techniques to round out your game.

The Priming Game Tactic

If the goal of the blocking tactic is to hamper the opponents ability to shift his checkers, the Priming Game strategy is to absolutely block any activity of the opponent by constructing a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s chips will either get bumped, or result a battered position if he/she ever tries to escape the wall. The ambush of the prime can be established anywhere between point 2 and point 11 in your game board. Once you have successfully built the prime to stop the movement of the opponent, the competitor does not even get to toss the dice, that means you shift your checkers and toss the dice yet again. You will win the game for sure.

The Back Game Strategy

The objectives of the Back Game technique and the Blocking Game tactic are very similar – to harm your opponent’s positions in hope to better your chances of succeeding, however the Back Game tactic uses seperate techniques to achieve that. The Back Game strategy is generally used when you are far behind your opponent. To play Backgammon with this plan, you need to hold two or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single piece) late in the game. This plan is more complex than others to use in Backgammon seeing as it needs careful movement of your checkers and how the chips are relocated is partly the outcome of the dice roll.