Backgammon Information

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As we dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a game of skill and luck. The goal is to move your chips safely around the board to your inner board while at the same time your opposition moves their pieces toward their inner board in the opposing direction. With competing player checkers moving in opposite directions there is going to be conflict and the need for particular techniques at particular instances. Here are the last two Backgammon strategies to complete your game.

The Priming Game Tactic

If the aim of the blocking strategy is to hamper the opponents ability to shift his pieces, the Priming Game strategy is to completely barricade any activity of the opponent by assembling a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s chips will either get hit, or end up in a bad position if he/she ever tries to escape the wall. The trap of the prime can be setup anywhere between point two and point eleven in your game board. After you’ve successfully built the prime to prevent the activity of your opponent, your competitor doesn’t even get a chance to roll the dice, that means you shift your chips and roll the dice again. You’ll be a winner for sure.

The Back Game Strategy

The goals of the Back Game plan and the Blocking Game technique are very similar – to hinder your opponent’s positions in hope to better your odds of succeeding, however the Back Game strategy utilizes different techniques to achieve that. The Back Game technique is generally used when you are far behind your competitor. To compete in Backgammon with this technique, you have to control 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single checker) late in the game. This strategy is more complex than others to play in Backgammon because it needs careful movement of your pieces and how the pieces are moved is partially the outcome of the dice roll.