The Essential Facts of Backgammon Tactics – Part Two

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As we dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a game of ability and pure luck. The aim is to move your chips carefully around the game board to your home board while at the same time your opposition moves their pieces toward their inner board in the opposite direction. With competing player checkers heading in opposing directions there is going to be conflict and the need for particular tactics at particular times. Here are the last 2 Backgammon tactics to finish off your game.

The Priming Game Plan

If the aim of the blocking strategy is to slow down the opponent to shift her checkers, the Priming Game tactic is to absolutely barricade 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 end up in a bad position if she ever tries to escape the wall. The trap of the prime can be setup anywhere between point two and point eleven in your half of the board. As soon as you have successfully constructed the prime to stop the activity of your opponent, your opponent does not even get a chance to roll the dice, that means you shift your chips and roll the dice again. You will win the game for sure.

The Back Game Strategy

The objectives of the Back Game plan and the Blocking Game technique are similar – to hurt your competitor’s positions with hope to improve your chances of succeeding, however the Back Game tactic utilizes alternate techniques to do that. The Back Game strategy is often used when you are far behind your opponent. To participate in Backgammon with this technique, you need to control two or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This plan is more complex than others to play in Backgammon because it requires careful movement of your checkers and how the chips are relocated is partly the outcome of the dice roll.