Backgammon Strategy Backgammon Strategy for Dummies

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As we have dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a game of ability and luck. The aim is to shift your chips carefully around the game board to your inside board while at the same time your opponent moves their checkers toward their inner board in the opposite direction. With competing player checkers heading in opposite directions there is going to be conflict and the requirement for specific techniques at specific instances. Here are the last two Backgammon strategies to complete your game.

The Priming Game Strategy

If the aim of the blocking strategy is to hamper the opponents ability to shift his chips, the Priming Game tactic is to completely barricade any movement of the opposing player by constructing a prime - ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor's pieces will either get hit, or end up in a damaged position if she at all attempts to leave the wall. The ambush of the prime can be built anywhere between point two and point eleven in your game board. After you've successfully built the prime to stop the activity of your opponent, your opponent does not even get a chance to toss the dice, and you shift your chips and toss the dice again. You will be a winner for sure.

The Back Game Plan

The aims of the Back Game tactic and the Blocking Game technique are very similar - to harm your competitor's positions hoping to improve your chances of succeeding, but the Back Game plan uses seperate tactics to do that. The Back Game technique is frequently used when you are far behind your opponent. To compete in Backgammon with this strategy, you have to control two or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single piece) late in the game. This plan is more complex than others to use in Backgammon because it requires careful movement of your pieces and how the pieces are moved is partly the result of the dice toss.