The Essential Facts of Backgammon Tactics – Part 2

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As we have dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a game of skill and luck. The aim is to shift your checkers safely around the board to your home board while at the same time your opposition shifts their chips toward their home board in the opposite direction. With competing player chips shifting in opposite directions there is going to be conflict and the requirement for particular strategies at particular instances. Here are the last 2 Backgammon tactics to finish off your game.

The Priming Game Plan

If the aim of the blocking plan is to hamper the opponents ability to shift her checkers, the Priming Game tactic is to absolutely block any activity of the opposing player by constructing a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s checkers will either get hit, or end up in a bad position if she at all tries to leave the wall. The ambush of the prime can be setup anyplace between point two and point eleven in your half of the board. After you have successfully constructed the prime to prevent the movement of the opponent, the competitor doesn’t even get a chance to roll the dice, that means you shift your chips and roll the dice yet again. You will win the game for sure.

The Back Game Plan

The objectives of the Back Game strategy and the Blocking Game strategy are very similar – to hurt your opponent’s positions in hope to improve your odds of succeeding, however the Back Game plan relies on alternate techniques to achieve that. The Back Game tactic is commonly used when you are far behind your opponent. To participate in Backgammon with this plan, you need to control two or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This strategy is more challenging than others to employ in Backgammon seeing as it requires careful movement of your checkers and how the checkers are moved is partially the outcome of the dice toss.