The Essential Facts of Backgammon Strategies – Part Two

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As we have dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a game of skill and good luck. The aim is to move your pieces safely around the game board to your inside board while at the same time your opposition moves their checkers toward their inside board in the opposing direction. With opposing player checkers heading in opposing directions there is going to be conflict and the need for specific techniques at particular instances. Here are the last two Backgammon tactics to complete your game.

The Priming Game Strategy

If the aim of the blocking plan is to slow down the opponent to move his pieces, the Priming Game strategy is to completely barricade any movement of the opponent by assembling a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s checkers will either get hit, or result a battered position if he/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. Once you have successfully constructed the prime to stop the movement of the competitor, the opponent does not even get a chance to roll the dice, that means you move your pieces and roll the dice yet again. You’ll be a winner for sure.

The Back Game Strategy

The objectives of the Back Game plan and the Blocking Game plan are very similar – to hinder your competitor’s positions hoping to improve your chances of winning, but the Back Game tactic relies on seperate tactics to do that. The Back Game technique is generally employed when you are far behind your opponent. To compete in Backgammon with this strategy, you have to hold 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single checker) late in the game. This tactic is more complex than others to use in Backgammon seeing as it needs careful movement of your pieces and how the chips are relocated is partially the result of the dice roll.