The Essential Details of Backgammon Strategies – Part 2

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As we dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a casino game of skill and luck. The goal is to shift your pieces carefully around the game board to your inside board and at the same time your opposing player moves their chips toward their home board in the opposite direction. With competing player checkers shifting in opposite directions there is bound to be conflict and the need for specific tactics at particular instances. Here are the last 2 Backgammon strategies to complete your game.

The Priming Game Plan

If the goal of the blocking plan is to slow down the opponent to move their checkers, the Priming Game plan is to completely stop any movement of the opposing player by constructing a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s pieces will either get bumped, or result a damaged position if she ever attempts to escape the wall. The ambush of the prime can be established anyplace between point two and point eleven in your half of the board. Once you have successfully constructed the prime to stop the movement of the opponent, your opponent does not even get a chance to roll the dice, that means you shift your chips and roll the dice yet again. You’ll win the game for sure.

The Back Game Tactic

The aims of the Back Game plan and the Blocking Game tactic are very similar – to hurt your opponent’s positions with hope to better your chances of winning, but the Back Game strategy utilizes seperate techniques to achieve that. The Back Game tactic is commonly used when you are far behind your opponent. To compete in Backgammon with this strategy, you need to control 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single checker) late in the game. This plan is more difficult than others to use in Backgammon seeing as it requires careful movement of your checkers and how the checkers are relocated is partially the result of the dice toss.