Backgammon Information

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As we dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a game of skill and luck. The goal is to move your chips carefully around the game board to your home board while at the same time your opposition moves their checkers toward their inside board in the opposite direction. With opposing player chips moving in opposite directions there is going to be conflict and the need for particular tactics at specific times. Here are the last two Backgammon strategies to finish off your game.

The Priming Game Strategy

If the purpose of the blocking strategy is to slow down the opponent to move their pieces, the Priming Game tactic is to completely barricade any movement of the opponent by constructing a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s pieces will either get hit, or end up in a damaged position if she ever tries to escape the wall. The ambush of the prime can be established anyplace between point 2 and point eleven in your board. As soon as you’ve successfully built the prime to block the activity of your opponent, the opponent does not even get a chance to toss the dice, and you move your chips and roll the dice again. You’ll win the game for sure.

The Back Game Tactic

The aims of the Back Game strategy and the Blocking Game plan are very similar – to hurt your competitor’s positions in hope to improve your odds of winning, but the Back Game tactic uses alternate techniques to achieve that. The Back Game strategy is generally utilized when you’re far behind your opponent. To compete in Backgammon with this plan, you need to control two or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single checker) late in the game. This plan is more difficult than others to employ in Backgammon because it requires careful movement of your checkers and how the pieces are moved is partially the result of the dice toss.