Backgammon Information

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As we dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a game of ability and luck. The goal is to move your checkers safely around the game board to your inner board and at the same time your opponent moves their checkers toward their inner board in the opposite direction. With opposing player pieces heading in opposite directions there is bound to be conflict and the requirement for specific tactics at specific instances. Here are the 2 final Backgammon techniques to finish off your game.

The Priming Game Plan

If the goal of the blocking plan is to hamper the opponents ability to move their checkers, the Priming Game strategy is to absolutely barricade any activity of the opposing player by creating a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s pieces will either get bumped, or result a battered position if he ever attempts to leave the wall. The trap of the prime can be setup anywhere between point two and point 11 in your board. After you’ve successfully assembled the prime to prevent the activity of your competitor, your competitor doesn’t even get to roll the dice, and you shift your chips and roll the dice again. You’ll win the game for sure.

The Back Game Technique

The aims of the Back Game technique and the Blocking Game strategy are similar – to hinder your competitor’s positions in hope to boost your chances of succeeding, but the Back Game plan uses alternate tactics to achieve that. The Back Game technique is often used when you’re far behind your competitor. To play Backgammon with this tactic, you have to control two or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This strategy is more complex than others to use in Backgammon seeing as it needs careful movement of your pieces and how the checkers are moved is partially the result of the dice toss.