Backgammon Information

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As we dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a game of skill and good luck. The goal is to move your checkers safely around the game board to your home board and at the same time your opposing player shifts their chips toward their home board in the opposing direction. With competing player chips shifting in opposite directions there is bound to be conflict and the need for specific tactics at specific times. Here are the last two Backgammon strategies to complete your game.

The Priming Game Tactic

If the aim of the blocking tactic is to hamper the opponents ability to shift their pieces, the Priming Game strategy is to absolutely stop any movement of the opponent by building a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s checkers will either get bumped, or result a battered position if he/she at all attempts to leave the wall. The trap of the prime can be setup anyplace between point 2 and point eleven in your game board. As soon as you have successfully built the prime to stop the activity of the competitor, the opponent doesn’t even get to roll the dice, that means you move your pieces and roll the dice yet again. You’ll win the game for sure.

The Back Game Tactic

The objectives of the Back Game tactic and the Blocking Game tactic are similar – to hinder your opponent’s positions with hope to improve your odds of winning, but the Back Game plan uses alternate tactics to do that. The Back Game technique is generally utilized when you are far behind your opponent. To compete in Backgammon with this strategy, you have to hold two or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single piece) late in the game. This strategy is more challenging than others to play in Backgammon seeing as it requires careful movement of your chips and how the checkers are relocated is partially the outcome of the dice toss.