Backgammon Information

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As we dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a game of skill and pure luck. The aim is to move your pieces safely around the board to your home board while at the same time your opposition moves their chips toward their home board in the opposite direction. With opposing player pieces heading in opposite directions there is going to be conflict and the need for particular techniques at particular instances. Here are the last 2 Backgammon strategies to round out your game.

The Priming Game Tactic

If the goal of the blocking strategy is to hamper the opponents ability to move his chips, the Priming Game plan is to completely stop any movement of the opponent by assembling a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s checkers will either get hit, or end up in a battered position if he at all tries to leave the wall. The ambush of the prime can be established anyplace between point 2 and point eleven in your game board. After you’ve successfully constructed the prime to prevent the movement of the opponent, your competitor doesn’t even get to toss the dice, that means you move your pieces and roll the dice yet again. You’ll win the game for sure.

The Back Game Technique

The objectives of the Back Game plan and the Blocking Game tactic are similar – to hurt your competitor’s positions hoping to better your odds of winning, but the Back Game strategy relies on different techniques to achieve that. The Back Game strategy is generally used when you’re far behind your competitor. To compete in Backgammon with this tactic, you have to control 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This technique is more challenging than others to employ in Backgammon because it requires careful movement of your checkers and how the pieces are moved is partly the outcome of the dice toss.