Backgammon Strategy Backgammon Strategy for Dummies

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As we dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a game of ability and pure luck. The goal is to shift your checkers carefully around the game board to your inside board while at the same time your opponent shifts their checkers toward their home board in the opposing direction. With competing player checkers shifting in opposite directions there is going to be conflict and the need for particular tactics at particular times. Here are the last 2 Backgammon strategies to finish off your game.

The Priming Game Plan

If the purpose of the blocking plan is to slow down the opponent to move her chips, the Priming Game strategy is to completely stop 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 result a battered position if she ever tries to leave the wall. The ambush of the prime can be built anyplace between point two and point eleven in your game board. Once you've successfully constructed the prime to prevent the activity of your competitor, your opponent does not even get a chance to toss the dice, and you shift your checkers and toss the dice again. You will win the game for sure.

The Back Game Technique

The goals of the Back Game technique and the Blocking Game plan are very similar - to hurt your competitor's positions with hope to better your chances of succeeding, but the Back Game tactic utilizes seperate techniques to do that. The Back Game tactic is commonly used when you're 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 (a single checker) late in the game. This plan is more difficult than others to employ in Backgammon because it needs careful movement of your pieces and how the pieces are relocated is partly the result of the dice roll.