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 and at the same time your opposition moves their checkers toward their inner board in the opposite direction. With competing player checkers moving in opposing directions there is going to be conflict and the need for specific tactics at particular times. Here are the 2 final Backgammon plans to round out your game.

The Priming Game Plan

If the aim of the blocking tactic is to slow down the opponent to shift their chips, the Priming Game tactic is to absolutely barricade any activity of the opposing player by building a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s chips will either get bumped, or end up in a damaged position if she at all tries to escape the wall. The ambush of the prime can be setup anyplace between point two and point 11 in your game board. Once you’ve successfully built the prime to block the activity of the competitor, the opponent doesn’t even get a chance to toss the dice, and you move your checkers and toss the dice yet again. You’ll win the game for sure.

The Back Game Plan

The aims of the Back Game tactic and the Blocking Game plan are very similar – to hurt your opponent’s positions hoping to improve your chances of succeeding, but the Back Game plan uses different tactics to achieve that. The Back Game tactic is frequently utilized when you are far behind your competitor. To participate in Backgammon with this plan, you have to hold two or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This strategy is more difficult than others to employ in Backgammon seeing as it requires careful movement of your pieces and how the pieces are relocated is partly the result of the dice roll.