The Essential Basics of Backgammon Strategies – Part Two

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As we have dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a casino game of talent and pure luck. The aim is to shift your chips carefully around the game board to your inside board while at the same time your opponent moves their chips 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 times. Here are the 2 final Backgammon tactics to finish off your game.

The Priming Game Strategy

If the goal of the blocking strategy is to hamper the opponents ability to move his pieces, the Priming Game tactic is to completely barricade any movement of the opposing player by creating a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s checkers will either get bumped, or end up in a bad position if she at all tries to escape the wall. The ambush of the prime can be built anywhere between point 2 and point 11 in your game board. Once you have successfully assembled the prime to prevent the movement of your opponent, your competitor doesn’t even get a chance to roll the dice, and you shift your checkers and roll the dice yet again. You’ll win the game for sure.

The Back Game Technique

The aims of the Back Game strategy and the Blocking Game tactic are very similar – to hurt your opponent’s positions in hope to boost your odds of winning, however the Back Game technique uses alternate tactics to achieve that. The Back Game plan is generally utilized when you’re far behind your competitor. To compete in Backgammon with this tactic, you have to hold two or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single piece) late in the game. This technique is more challenging than others to employ in Backgammon because it needs careful movement of your chips and how the checkers are relocated is partly the result of the dice toss.