Backgammon Information

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As we have dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a casino game of ability and pure luck. The aim is to shift your chips carefully around the board to your inner board while at the same time your opposing player moves their checkers toward their inner board in the opposing direction. With competing player pieces moving in opposing directions there is going to be conflict and the requirement for specific techniques at particular instances. Here are the last 2 Backgammon techniques to round out your game.

The Priming Game Strategy

If the goal of the blocking strategy is to slow down the opponent to shift his chips, the Priming Game strategy 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 he/she ever tries to escape the wall. The trap of the prime can be setup anyplace between point 2 and point eleven in your half of the board. After you have successfully built the prime to prevent the activity of your opponent, your opponent doesn’t even get a chance to toss the dice, that means you shift your checkers and roll the dice again. You’ll be a winner for sure.

The Back Game Tactic

The goals of the Back Game strategy and the Blocking Game strategy are similar – to harm your competitor’s positions hoping to better your chances of winning, but the Back Game plan utilizes different tactics to do that. The Back Game tactic is generally used when you are far behind your opponent. To play Backgammon with this strategy, 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 play in Backgammon because it needs careful movement of your pieces and how the checkers are relocated is partly the outcome of the dice toss.