Backgammon Information

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As we dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a game of ability and luck. The aim is to shift your pieces carefully around the game board to your inside board and at the same time your opposition moves their chips toward their home board in the opposite direction. With competing player pieces moving in opposite directions there is bound 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 tactic is to slow down the opponent to shift his pieces, the Priming Game plan is to absolutely barricade any activity of the opposing player by assembling a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s checkers will either get hit, or end up in a battered position if he at all tries to escape the wall. The ambush of the prime can be established anywhere between point 2 and point eleven in your game board. As soon as you have successfully assembled the prime to stop the activity of the opponent, your competitor doesn’t even get to toss the dice, that means you shift your chips and roll the dice yet again. You’ll win the game for sure.

The Back Game Strategy

The aims of the Back Game tactic and the Blocking Game tactic are similar – to harm your opponent’s positions with hope to better your odds of succeeding, but the Back Game tactic uses alternate techniques to do that. The Back Game technique is generally employed when you are far behind your competitor. To play Backgammon with this technique, you need to control two or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This tactic is more difficult than others to use in Backgammon seeing as it needs careful movement of your checkers and how the pieces are relocated is partly the outcome of the dice toss.