The Essential Facts of Backgammon Game Plans – Part Two

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As we have dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a casino game of talent and pure luck. The aim is to move your checkers carefully around the game board to your home board while at the same time your opponent moves their pieces toward their inner board in the opposing direction. With competing player checkers moving in opposing directions there is going to be conflict and the need for particular tactics at specific times. Here are the last 2 Backgammon techniques to round out your game.

The Priming Game Plan

If the purpose of the blocking tactic is to hamper the opponents ability to move her checkers, the Priming Game tactic is to completely barricade any movement of the opposing player by creating a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s checkers will either get hit, or end up in a bad position if he/she at all attempts to leave the wall. The ambush of the prime can be established anyplace between point two and point 11 in your game board. After 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, and you shift your checkers and toss the dice yet again. You’ll be a winner for sure.

The Back Game Plan

The objectives of the Back Game technique and the Blocking Game strategy are very similar – to harm your opponent’s positions hoping to better your odds of winning, however the Back Game tactic uses different tactics to do that. The Back Game technique is often utilized when you are far behind your competitor. To compete in Backgammon with this technique, you have to hold 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 pieces and how the pieces are moved is partially the outcome of the dice roll.