Backgammon Information

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As we have dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a casino game of talent and pure luck. The goal is to shift your pieces carefully around the game board to your inside board and at the same time your opposing player moves their chips toward their inside board in the opposing direction. With opposing player pieces moving in opposite directions there is going to be conflict and the need for particular tactics at particular times. Here are the 2 final Backgammon tactics to complete your game.

The Priming Game Plan

If the goal of the blocking tactic is to hamper the opponents ability to shift their pieces, the Priming Game plan is to absolutely barricade any activity of the opponent by assembling a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s pieces will either get bumped, or end up in a bad position if she ever tries to leave the wall. The ambush of the prime can be built anyplace between point two and point 11 in your game board. After you have successfully built the prime to prevent the movement of your competitor, the competitor doesn’t even get to toss the dice, that means you move your pieces and toss the dice again. You’ll be a winner for sure.

The Back Game Technique

The goals of the Back Game strategy and the Blocking Game tactic are similar – to hinder your opponent’s positions in hope to improve your odds of winning, however the Back Game tactic utilizes seperate tactics to achieve that. The Back Game plan is generally used when you’re far behind your competitor. To participate in Backgammon with this tactic, you need to hold two or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single piece) late in the game. This strategy is more complex than others to employ in Backgammon because it needs careful movement of your checkers and how the checkers are moved is partly the result of the dice roll.