Backgammon Information

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As we have dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a game of skill and luck. The goal is to shift your chips safely around the game board to your home board and at the same time your opposing player shifts their pieces toward their inside board in the opposite direction. With opposing player checkers heading in opposing directions there is going to be conflict and the need for particular tactics at particular instances. Here are the last two Backgammon techniques to complete your game.

The Priming Game Plan

If the purpose of the blocking tactic is to hamper the opponents ability to shift his checkers, the Priming Game plan is to absolutely block any movement of the opponent by building a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s pieces will either get bumped, or result a battered position if she ever attempts to escape the wall. The ambush of the prime can be established anywhere between point two and point eleven in your game board. Once you have successfully built the prime to block the movement of the opponent, the competitor does not even get a chance to toss the dice, and you move your pieces and roll the dice again. You will win the game for sure.

The Back Game Plan

The goals of the Back Game plan and the Blocking Game tactic are very similar – to hurt your competitor’s positions hoping to better your chances of succeeding, but the Back Game plan utilizes alternate techniques to do that. The Back Game technique is commonly employed when you are far behind your opponent. To compete in Backgammon with this tactic, you need to control two or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This plan is more challenging than others to play in Backgammon seeing as it requires careful movement of your checkers and how the chips are moved is partly the outcome of the dice roll.