Backgammon Information

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As we have dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a game of ability and pure luck. The aim is to shift your pieces carefully around the game board to your inside board while at the same time your opposition moves their pieces toward their home board in the opposite direction. With competing player checkers moving in opposing directions there is bound to be conflict and the need for particular tactics at particular times. Here are the last two Backgammon tactics to complete your game.

The Priming Game Strategy

If the purpose of the blocking plan is to hamper the opponents ability to move her checkers, the Priming Game strategy is to completely barricade any activity of the opponent by creating a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s chips will either get bumped, or result a battered position if she ever attempts to leave the wall. The ambush of the prime can be built anywhere between point two and point eleven in your half of the board. After you’ve successfully built the prime to stop the activity of the competitor, the competitor does not even get a chance to roll the dice, that means you move your pieces and roll the dice yet again. You’ll be a winner for sure.

The Back Game Tactic

The objectives of the Back Game strategy and the Blocking Game strategy are similar – to harm your opponent’s positions hoping to better your chances of winning, but the Back Game technique relies on seperate tactics to achieve that. The Back Game strategy is often employed when you are far behind your opponent. To play Backgammon with this plan, you need to control two or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single piece) late in the game. This plan is more difficult than others to employ in Backgammon because it requires careful movement of your chips and how the chips are moved is partly the result of the dice roll.