The Essential Details of Backgammon Game Plans – Part 2

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As we dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a game of ability and pure luck. The aim is to shift your pieces carefully around the game board to your inner board while at the same time your opposition moves their checkers toward their home board in the opposite direction. With opposing player checkers shifting in opposite directions there is bound to be conflict and the need for specific tactics at specific instances. Here are the last two Backgammon strategies to finish off your game.

The Priming Game Tactic

If the aim of the blocking strategy is to hamper the opponents ability to shift her chips, the Priming Game tactic is to absolutely barricade any movement of the opponent by constructing a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s checkers will either get bumped, or result a damaged position if he/she ever attempts to escape the wall. The ambush of the prime can be setup anywhere between point two and point eleven in your half of the board. As soon as you’ve successfully assembled the prime to block the activity of the opponent, your opponent doesn’t even get a chance to roll the dice, and you shift your pieces and toss the dice yet again. You will be a winner for sure.

The Back Game Plan

The aims of the Back Game tactic and the Blocking Game technique are very similar – to hurt your competitor’s positions hoping to better your odds of succeeding, but the Back Game technique uses alternate tactics to achieve that. The Back Game strategy is commonly utilized when you’re far behind your opponent. To compete in Backgammon with this tactic, you have to control two or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single piece) late in the game. This tactic is more difficult than others to employ in Backgammon seeing as it requires careful movement of your checkers and how the pieces are relocated is partly the outcome of the dice roll.