Backgammon Information

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As we have dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a casino game of ability and luck. The aim is to move your pieces carefully around the board to your inside board while at the same time your opponent shifts their pieces toward their inside board in the opposite direction. With opposing player pieces shifting in opposing directions there is going to be conflict and the need for specific strategies at particular times. Here are the last 2 Backgammon plans to complete your game.

The Priming Game Plan

If the goal of the blocking plan is to slow down the opponent to move her chips, the Priming Game tactic is to completely block any activity of the opposing player by creating a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s checkers will either get hit, or end up in a battered position if he/she ever attempts to escape the wall. The ambush of the prime can be built anywhere between point 2 and point 11 in your half of the board. As soon as you’ve successfully constructed the prime to block the activity of the opponent, your opponent doesn’t even get a chance to roll the dice, and you move your checkers and roll the dice again. You’ll win the game for sure.

The Back Game Plan

The goals of the Back Game strategy and the Blocking Game strategy are similar – to hurt your opponent’s positions hoping to better your chances of succeeding, but the Back Game tactic relies on different techniques to achieve that. The Back Game plan is commonly used when you are far behind your competitor. To participate in Backgammon with this plan, you have to control two or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single checker) late in the game. This tactic is more difficult than others to use in Backgammon because it requires careful movement of your chips and how the chips are relocated is partly the outcome of the dice toss.