Backgammon Information

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As we dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a game of ability and pure luck. The aim is to move your pieces carefully around the game board to your inside board and at the same time your opponent shifts their chips toward their home board in the opposite direction. With competing player checkers shifting in opposing directions there is bound to be conflict and the need for particular tactics at particular instances. Here are the 2 final Backgammon plans to finish off your game.

The Priming Game Plan

If the goal of the blocking strategy is to hamper the opponents ability to move his pieces, the Priming Game strategy is to absolutely barricade any activity of the opponent by creating a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s pieces will either get hit, or result a bad position if he at all tries to leave the wall. The ambush of the prime can be setup anywhere between point 2 and point 11 in your half of the board. After you’ve successfully constructed the prime to block the activity of the competitor, the competitor does not even get to toss the dice, and you shift your chips and toss the dice again. You will win the game for sure.

The Back Game Tactic

The aims of the Back Game plan and the Blocking Game strategy are very similar – to harm your competitor’s positions in hope to better your odds of succeeding, but the Back Game technique utilizes different techniques to achieve that. The Back Game strategy is frequently utilized when you are far behind your competitor. To participate in Backgammon with this technique, you need to control 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single checker) late in the game. This tactic is more challenging than others to play in Backgammon because it needs careful movement of your pieces and how the pieces are relocated is partly the result of the dice roll.