The Essential Facts of Backgammon Tactics – Part 2

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As we have dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a game of skill and good luck. The aim is to move your pieces carefully around the game board to your inside board and at the same time your opponent shifts their checkers toward their inside board in the opposing direction. With opposing player checkers moving in opposite directions there is bound to be conflict and the requirement for specific strategies at particular times. Here are the last two Backgammon plans to complete your game.

The Priming Game Tactic

If the purpose of the blocking tactic is to hamper the opponents ability to shift their chips, the Priming Game tactic is to absolutely barricade any activity of the opposing player by assembling a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s chips will either get bumped, or result a battered position if he/she ever tries to escape the wall. The trap of the prime can be established anywhere between point two and point 11 in your board. Once you have successfully constructed the prime to prevent the movement of the competitor, your opponent doesn’t even get a chance to roll the dice, that means you shift your chips and toss the dice yet again. You will win the game for sure.

The Back Game Strategy

The objectives of the Back Game strategy and the Blocking Game tactic are very similar – to hurt your competitor’s positions in hope to improve your chances of succeeding, however the Back Game technique uses seperate tactics to achieve that. The Back Game plan is often employed when you’re 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 employ in Backgammon because it requires careful movement of your chips and how the chips are relocated is partly the outcome of the dice roll.