Backgammon Strategy Backgammon Strategy for Dummies

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As we dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a game of ability and good luck. The goal is to shift your pieces carefully around the board to your home board and at the same time your opponent shifts their pieces toward their inside board in the opposing direction. With opposing player chips shifting in opposite directions there is going to be conflict and the requirement for particular techniques at specific times. Here are the last 2 Backgammon tactics to complete your game.

The Priming Game Plan

If the purpose of the blocking tactic is to slow down the opponent to move their pieces, the Priming Game tactic is to completely stop any activity of the opponent by constructing a prime - ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent's chips will either get bumped, or end up in a damaged position if he/she at all attempts to leave the wall. The ambush of the prime can be established anywhere between point two and point eleven in your half of the board. As soon as you've successfully constructed the prime to block the movement of your competitor, the competitor does not even get a chance to roll the dice, and you move your pieces and roll the dice yet again. You will be a winner for sure.

The Back Game Tactic

The goals of the Back Game strategy and the Blocking Game plan are very similar - to harm your competitor's positions hoping to improve your odds of winning, however the Back Game strategy relies on different techniques to do that. The Back Game technique is generally employed when you're far behind your opponent. To compete in Backgammon with this technique, you need to control two or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This strategy is more complex than others to play in Backgammon seeing as it requires careful movement of your checkers and how the checkers are moved is partly the result of the dice toss.