Backgammon Information

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As we have dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a casino game of skill and luck. The aim is to move your checkers carefully around the game board to your inside board and at the same time your opposition shifts their checkers toward their home board in the opposite direction. With competing player pieces moving in opposite directions there is bound to be conflict and the need for specific techniques at specific instances. Here are the two final Backgammon strategies to finish off your game.

The Priming Game Strategy

If the purpose of the blocking strategy is to hamper the opponents ability to shift his chips, the Priming Game strategy is to absolutely block any activity of the opposing player by building a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s pieces will either get hit, or end up in a damaged position if she ever attempts to leave the wall. The ambush of the prime can be built anywhere between point two and point 11 in your game board. Once you’ve successfully built the prime to prevent the movement of the opponent, your opponent doesn’t even get a chance to roll the dice, that means you move your chips and roll the dice yet again. You’ll be a winner for sure.

The Back Game Technique

The aims of the Back Game plan and the Blocking Game plan are very similar – to hinder your opponent’s positions hoping to improve your chances of succeeding, but the Back Game plan uses seperate techniques to achieve that. The Back Game plan is commonly used when you’re far behind your competitor. To play Backgammon with this technique, you need to hold two or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single checker) late in the game. This technique is more complex than others to employ in Backgammon seeing as it needs careful movement of your pieces and how the checkers are relocated is partially the outcome of the dice roll.