The Essential Facts of Backgammon Strategies – Part 2

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As we have dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a casino game of ability and pure luck. The goal is to move your checkers safely around the game board to your home board while at the same time your opposing player moves their checkers toward their home board in the opposite direction. With opposing player chips heading in opposite directions there is bound to be conflict and the need for specific strategies at particular times. Here are the last two Backgammon techniques to finish off your game.

The Priming Game Tactic

If the purpose of the blocking strategy is to hamper the opponents ability to move her pieces, the Priming Game plan is to completely barricade any activity of the opposing player by constructing a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s checkers will either get bumped, or result a battered position if she ever attempts to leave the wall. The ambush of the prime can be established anywhere between point 2 and point 11 in your board. Once you have successfully assembled the prime to stop the activity of your opponent, your opponent does not even get a chance to roll the dice, and you move your chips and roll the dice yet again. You will win the game for sure.

The Back Game Technique

The aims of the Back Game tactic and the Blocking Game plan are very similar – to hurt your opponent’s positions hoping to boost your odds of succeeding, but the Back Game plan utilizes seperate tactics to achieve that. The Back Game strategy is often used when you’re far behind your competitor. To play Backgammon with this plan, you need to control two or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single checker) late in the game. This tactic is more challenging than others to employ in Backgammon because it requires careful movement of your pieces and how the chips are relocated is partly the outcome of the dice toss.