Backgammon Information

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As we have dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a game of talent and good luck. The goal is to move your pieces carefully around the board to your home board and at the same time your opposing player moves their checkers toward their home board in the opposite direction. With opposing player pieces shifting in opposite directions there is bound to be conflict and the requirement for specific strategies at particular times. Here are the last two Backgammon strategies to finish off your game.

The Priming Game Strategy

If the goal of the blocking tactic is to hamper the opponents ability to shift his pieces, the Priming Game tactic is to absolutely block any activity of the opposing player by constructing a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s checkers will either get bumped, or end up in a battered position if she at all attempts to leave the wall. The ambush of the prime can be built anyplace between point 2 and point eleven in your game board. As soon as you have successfully constructed the prime to stop the activity of your competitor, your opponent does not even get a chance to toss the dice, and you shift your pieces and roll the dice again. You’ll win the game for sure.

The Back Game Technique

The aims of the Back Game tactic and the Blocking Game technique are very similar – to hurt your competitor’s positions in hope to boost your chances of winning, but the Back Game tactic uses seperate tactics to achieve that. The Back Game tactic is commonly employed when you are far behind your competitor. To participate in Backgammon with this tactic, you have to control 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single checker) late in the game. This tactic is more difficult than others to play in Backgammon seeing as it requires careful movement of your chips and how the pieces are moved is partly the outcome of the dice roll.