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 goal is to move your pieces safely around the board to your inside board while at the same time your opponent shifts their chips toward their inside board in the opposing direction. With competing player pieces heading in opposite directions there is bound to be conflict and the requirement for specific techniques at specific instances. Here are the last 2 Backgammon plans to complete your game.

The Priming Game Tactic

If the purpose of the blocking tactic is to slow down the opponent to move her checkers, the Priming Game plan is to absolutely block any activity of the opposing player by building a prime - ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor's pieces will either get hit, or result a damaged position if he ever attempts to escape the wall. The ambush of the prime can be built anywhere between point two and point 11 in your half of the board. Once you have successfully built the prime to prevent the movement of the competitor, your opponent doesn't even get a chance to toss the dice, and you shift your pieces and roll the dice yet again. You'll win the game for sure.

The Back Game Plan

The goals of the Back Game plan and the Blocking Game strategy are very similar - to hurt your opponent's positions in hope to improve your odds of winning, but the Back Game strategy utilizes different techniques to achieve that. The Back Game tactic is generally used when you're far behind your competitor. To play Backgammon with this technique, you have to hold two or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This strategy is more challenging than others to employ in Backgammon because it needs careful movement of your chips and how the chips are moved is partly the result of the dice toss.