Backgammon Strategy Backgammon Strategy for Dummies

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As we dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a casino game of ability and luck. The aim is to shift your pieces carefully around the game board to your home board and at the same time your opposing player moves their chips toward their inner board in the opposite direction. With competing player pieces heading in opposite directions there is bound to be conflict and the requirement for specific techniques at specific times. Here are the last two Backgammon tactics to round out your game.

The Priming Game Plan

If the goal of the blocking tactic is to slow down the opponent to shift their checkers, the Priming Game strategy is to completely barricade any activity of the opposing player by creating a prime - ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent's chips will either get hit, or end up in a battered position if he at all tries to leave the wall. The trap of the prime can be setup anywhere between point two and point eleven in your board. After you have successfully constructed the prime to block the activity of the opponent, the opponent doesn't even get a chance to toss the dice, and you move your checkers and roll the dice again. You will be a winner for sure.

The Back Game Plan

The aims of the Back Game plan and the Blocking Game strategy are very similar - to harm your opponent's positions with hope to boost your chances of succeeding, but the Back Game tactic relies on different tactics to do that. The Back Game tactic is often used when you are far behind your competitor. To participate in Backgammon with this tactic, you need to hold 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single piece) late in the game. This plan is more challenging than others to employ in Backgammon because it needs careful movement of your pieces and how the pieces are moved is partially the outcome of the dice toss.