The Essential Facts of Backgammon Strategies – Part Two

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As we dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a game of talent and pure luck. The goal is to shift your chips safely around the game board to your inner board while at the same time your opponent shifts their pieces toward their inside board in the opposite direction. With competing player pieces shifting in opposing directions there is going to be conflict and the requirement for specific tactics at particular instances. Here are the two final Backgammon plans to finish off your game.

The Priming Game Tactic

If the purpose of the blocking plan is to slow down the opponent to move his pieces, the Priming Game plan is to absolutely block any activity of the opposing player by creating a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s chips will either get hit, or end up in a bad position if he/she at all attempts to escape the wall. The ambush of the prime can be setup anywhere between point two and point 11 in your half of the board. After you have successfully built the prime to stop the activity of your competitor, the competitor doesn’t even get a chance to toss the dice, and you shift your checkers and toss the dice yet again. You will be a winner for sure.

The Back Game Technique

The aims of the Back Game technique and the Blocking Game tactic are very similar – to hurt your competitor’s positions in hope to improve your odds of succeeding, but the Back Game technique utilizes alternate techniques to achieve that. The Back Game strategy is generally utilized when you are far behind your competitor. To participate in Backgammon with this strategy, you need to hold 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This tactic is more challenging than others to employ in Backgammon seeing as it needs careful movement of your checkers and how the pieces are relocated is partially the outcome of the dice toss.