The Essential Facts of Backgammon Game Plans – Part 2

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As we have dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a game of talent and pure luck. The aim is to shift your checkers carefully around the game board to your inside board while at the same time your opponent moves their pieces toward their inner board in the opposite direction. With opposing player pieces heading in opposing directions there is bound to be conflict and the need for specific tactics at particular instances. Here are the two final Backgammon strategies to round out your game.

The Priming Game Plan

If the purpose of the blocking plan is to hamper the opponents ability to move his checkers, the Priming Game plan is to completely stop any activity of the opponent by constructing a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s checkers will either get bumped, or end up in a battered position if he/she at all attempts to escape the wall. The trap of the prime can be built anyplace between point two and point eleven in your board. After you have successfully constructed the prime to block the activity of the competitor, your competitor does not even get a chance to toss the dice, and you shift your chips and roll the dice yet again. You will be a winner for sure.

The Back Game Technique

The objectives of the Back Game strategy and the Blocking Game strategy are similar – to hinder your opponent’s positions hoping to better your odds of winning, but the Back Game technique relies on different tactics to achieve that. The Back Game tactic is commonly utilized when you’re far behind your opponent. To participate in Backgammon with this technique, you need to hold two or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single piece) late in the game. This tactic is more complex than others to employ in Backgammon seeing as it requires careful movement of your checkers and how the checkers are moved is partly the result of the dice toss.