Backgammon Information

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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 shift your pieces carefully around the game board to your home board and at the same time your opposition shifts their checkers toward their inner board in the opposite direction. With opposing player checkers moving in opposing directions there is going to be conflict and the need for specific strategies at specific instances. Here are the 2 final Backgammon tactics to round out your game.

The Priming Game Plan

If the aim of the blocking plan is to slow down the opponent to move her pieces, the Priming Game tactic is to completely barricade any activity of the opponent by assembling a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s checkers will either get hit, or end up in a bad position if she at all attempts to escape the wall. The ambush of the prime can be established anyplace between point two and point 11 in your board. After you’ve successfully built the prime to stop the movement of the competitor, the competitor doesn’t even get a chance to toss the dice, and you shift your pieces and roll the dice again. You will be a winner for sure.

The Back Game Technique

The objectives of the Back Game tactic and the Blocking Game technique are similar – to harm your competitor’s positions in hope to better your odds of winning, however the Back Game strategy uses alternate tactics to achieve that. The Back Game plan is frequently utilized when you’re far behind your competitor. To participate in Backgammon with this technique, you have to hold two or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single piece) late in the game. This strategy is more complex than others to employ in Backgammon because it requires careful movement of your pieces and how the checkers are relocated is partly the result of the dice roll.