The Essential Details of Backgammon Strategies – Part 2

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As we dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a casino game of ability and luck. The goal is to shift your chips safely around the board to your inner board while at the same time your opponent moves their pieces toward their home board in the opposing direction. With competing player checkers moving in opposite directions there is going to be conflict and the requirement for particular tactics at particular times. Here are the last 2 Backgammon plans to round out your game.

The Priming Game Strategy

If the purpose of the blocking strategy is to hamper the opponents ability to move their pieces, the Priming Game tactic is to absolutely barricade any activity of the opposing player by creating a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s checkers will either get bumped, or end up in a bad position if he/she ever tries to leave the wall. The trap of the prime can be setup anywhere between point two and point 11 in your half of the board. As soon as you have successfully built the prime to stop the activity of your competitor, your opponent doesn’t even get to roll the dice, that means you move your checkers and toss the dice yet again. You’ll be a winner for sure.

The Back Game Technique

The goals of the Back Game tactic and the Blocking Game tactic are very similar – to harm your competitor’s positions in hope to better your odds of succeeding, but the Back Game tactic utilizes different techniques to achieve that. The Back Game tactic is commonly used when you’re far behind your competitor. To participate in Backgammon with this strategy, you need to hold 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single checker) late in the game. This plan is more difficult than others to play in Backgammon seeing as it requires careful movement of your checkers and how the checkers are relocated is partially the result of the dice roll.