Backgammon Strategy Backgammon Strategy for Dummies

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As we dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a game of talent and good luck. The goal is to shift your checkers carefully around the board to your inner board while at the same time your opposition shifts their pieces toward their inner board in the opposite direction. With opposing player pieces shifting in opposing directions there is going to be conflict and the need for particular tactics at specific instances. Here are the two final Backgammon techniques to complete your game.

The Priming Game Strategy

If the goal of the blocking strategy is to slow down the opponent to shift their checkers, the Priming Game tactic is to completely barricade any movement of the opponent by assembling a prime - ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor's checkers will either get bumped, or end up in a battered position if she at all tries to leave the wall. The trap of the prime can be built anywhere between point 2 and point 11 in your board. As soon as you've successfully constructed the prime to stop the activity of your competitor, the opponent does not even get a chance to toss the dice, and you shift your pieces and toss the dice yet again. You'll be a winner for sure.

The Back Game Plan

The aims of the Back Game plan and the Blocking Game technique are similar - to hinder your competitor's positions with hope to boost your odds of succeeding, but the Back Game technique uses seperate tactics to achieve that. The Back Game strategy is generally employed when you're far behind your competitor. To play Backgammon with this plan, you have to control two or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This plan is more complex than others to use in Backgammon seeing as it needs careful movement of your pieces and how the pieces are moved is partially the result of the dice toss.