Backgammon Strategy Backgammon Strategy for Dummies

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As we dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a casino game of skill and good luck. The goal is to move your pieces safely around the game board to your inner board while at the same time your opposing player shifts their checkers toward their inside board in the opposite direction. With competing player checkers heading in opposing directions there is bound to be conflict and the need for specific techniques at specific times. Here are the last 2 Backgammon plans to finish off your game.

The Priming Game Tactic

If the purpose of the blocking plan is to hamper the opponents ability to shift his chips, the Priming Game plan is to absolutely stop any movement of the opponent by building a prime - ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor's checkers will either get bumped, or end up in a battered position if he/she at all attempts to leave the wall. The trap of the prime can be built anyplace between point two and point 11 in your board. Once you've successfully constructed the prime to prevent the activity of your competitor, your competitor does not even get a chance to roll the dice, and you move your checkers and toss the dice yet again. You'll be a winner for sure.

The Back Game Plan

The aims of the Back Game strategy and the Blocking Game technique are similar - to hurt your opponent's positions with hope to better your chances of winning, but the Back Game plan uses seperate techniques to do that. The Back Game tactic is commonly employed when you are far behind your opponent. To participate in Backgammon with this tactic, you need to control 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This technique is more complex than others to play in Backgammon because it requires careful movement of your pieces and how the chips are moved is partly the result of the dice toss.