The Essential Facts of Backgammon Game Plans – Part Two

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

The Priming Game Plan

If the goal of the blocking plan is to hamper the opponents ability to move her checkers, the Priming Game strategy is to absolutely stop any activity 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 damaged position if she ever tries to leave the wall. The ambush of the prime can be established anyplace between point two and point 11 in your 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 toss the dice, that means you move your chips and toss the dice 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 similar – to hurt your opponent’s positions with hope to boost your odds of succeeding, however the Back Game technique utilizes different techniques to do that. The Back Game plan is generally utilized when you are far behind your competitor. To compete in Backgammon with this strategy, you need to control 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single piece) late in the game. This strategy is more difficult than others to play in Backgammon seeing as it needs careful movement of your checkers and how the checkers are relocated is partly the result of the dice roll.