The Essential Basics of Backgammon Strategies – Part Two

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As we have dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a casino game of ability and pure luck. The goal is to shift your chips safely around the board to your inside board and at the same time your opposition moves their chips toward their inner board in the opposing direction. With opposing player pieces heading in opposite directions there is going to be conflict and the need for particular techniques at particular times. Here are the two final Backgammon plans to complete your game.

The Priming Game Strategy

If the aim of the blocking tactic is to hamper the opponents ability to shift their chips, the Priming Game strategy is to absolutely barricade any movement of the opposing player by assembling a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s chips will either get hit, or end up in a damaged position if he/she ever attempts to escape the wall. The trap of the prime can be setup anyplace between point 2 and point eleven in your game board. After you have successfully constructed the prime to stop the movement of your opponent, the competitor does not even get a chance to roll the dice, that means you move your chips and roll the dice yet again. You’ll win the game for sure.

The Back Game Tactic

The goals of the Back Game technique and the Blocking Game tactic are similar – to hinder your competitor’s positions hoping to better your odds of succeeding, however the Back Game strategy uses different techniques to achieve that. The Back Game tactic is frequently employed when you’re far behind your opponent. To play Backgammon with this plan, you have to hold 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single piece) late in the game. This technique is more complex than others to use in Backgammon seeing as it requires careful movement of your checkers and how the checkers are moved is partly the outcome of the dice toss.