The Essential Facts of Backgammon Tactics – Part Two

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As we have dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a casino game of skill and pure luck. The goal is to shift your checkers safely around the game board to your inner board and at the same time your opponent shifts their pieces toward their inner board in the opposite direction. With competing player chips shifting in opposite directions there is bound to be conflict and the requirement for specific techniques at particular instances. Here are the two final Backgammon strategies to round out your game.

The Priming Game Plan

If the goal of the blocking plan is to slow down the opponent to move her pieces, the Priming Game plan is to absolutely block any movement of the opposing player by constructing a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s checkers will either get bumped, or end up in a damaged position if he ever tries to escape the wall. The trap of the prime can be established anyplace between point 2 and point 11 in your half of the board. Once you have successfully built the prime to stop the movement of the opponent, the competitor doesn’t even get a chance to toss the dice, and you move your checkers and toss the dice again. You will be a winner for sure.

The Back Game Tactic

The objectives of the Back Game strategy and the Blocking Game tactic are very similar – to hurt your opponent’s positions in hope to boost your chances of succeeding, however the Back Game plan utilizes seperate techniques to do that. The Back Game technique is generally utilized when you are far behind your opponent. To participate in Backgammon with this technique, you have to control two or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This strategy is more difficult than others to use in Backgammon because it requires careful movement of your pieces and how the chips are relocated is partially the result of the dice toss.