Backgammon Strategy Backgammon Strategy for Dummies

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As we dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a game of ability and luck. The goal is to move your checkers carefully around the game board to your home board while at the same time your opposing player shifts their pieces toward their inner board in the opposing direction. With competing player chips heading in opposing directions there is bound to be conflict and the requirement for specific techniques at specific instances. Here are the last two Backgammon tactics to complete your game.

The Priming Game Tactic

If the goal of the blocking strategy is to slow down the opponent to move their checkers, the Priming Game tactic is to absolutely stop any activity of the opponent by creating a prime - ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor's checkers will either get hit, or end up in a damaged position if he/she at all tries to escape the wall. The ambush of the prime can be setup anyplace between point 2 and point 11 in your game board. Once you've successfully built the prime to stop the activity of your opponent, your competitor does not even get to toss the dice, and you shift your checkers and roll the dice again. You'll be a winner for sure.

The Back Game Technique

The goals of the Back Game strategy and the Blocking Game technique are similar - to harm your opponent's positions hoping to boost your chances of winning, but the Back Game tactic uses different techniques to do that. The Back Game tactic is generally used when you're far behind your competitor. To participate in Backgammon with this strategy, you have to hold 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This strategy is more challenging than others to use in Backgammon seeing as it needs careful movement of your checkers and how the checkers are relocated is partially the result of the dice roll.