Backgammon Strategy Backgammon Strategy for Dummies

Read more about the
Las Vegas 2024 Super
Bowl Streaker!

As we dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a game of ability and luck. The aim is to shift your chips safely around the board to your inner board while at the same time your opposing player shifts their chips toward their home board in the opposing direction. With competing player checkers moving in opposing directions there is bound to be conflict and the requirement for specific techniques at specific times. Here are the two final Backgammon plans to complete your game.

The Priming Game Tactic

If the goal of the blocking strategy is to slow down the opponent to move his chips, the Priming Game strategy is to absolutely barricade any activity of the opposing player by assembling a prime - ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent's pieces will either get hit, or end up in a damaged position if she at all tries to leave the wall. The ambush of the prime can be established anyplace between point two and point eleven in your board. As soon as you've successfully built the prime to stop the movement of the competitor, the competitor does not even get a chance to roll the dice, and you shift your pieces and toss the dice again. You'll be a winner for sure.

The Back Game Tactic

The objectives of the Back Game strategy and the Blocking Game plan are similar - to hurt your competitor's positions in hope to boost your odds of winning, but the Back Game tactic utilizes seperate techniques to do that. The Back Game technique is often utilized when you are far behind your competitor. To compete in Backgammon with this technique, 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 challenging than others to play in Backgammon because it requires careful movement of your pieces and how the chips are moved is partially the result of the dice roll.