Backgammon Strategy Backgammon Strategy for Dummies

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As we dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a game of skill and luck. The goal is to move your chips carefully around the game board to your inner board while at the same time your opposing player shifts their pieces toward their inner board in the opposing direction. With opposing player checkers moving in opposite directions there is bound to be conflict and the requirement for specific techniques at particular instances. Here are the 2 final Backgammon tactics to round out your game.

The Priming Game Strategy

If the goal of the blocking plan is to slow down the opponent to shift their pieces, the Priming Game plan is to absolutely block any movement of the opponent by building 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 ever tries to escape the wall. The trap of the prime can be built anyplace between point two and point eleven in your game board. As soon as you have successfully assembled the prime to block the activity of your opponent, the opponent doesn't even get to toss the dice, and you shift your pieces and toss the dice again. You will win the game for sure.

The Back Game Strategy

The goals of the Back Game tactic and the Blocking Game tactic are similar - to hinder your opponent's positions in hope to boost your chances of winning, however the Back Game technique uses seperate tactics to do that. The Back Game strategy is often employed when you are far behind your opponent. To compete in Backgammon with this strategy, you have to control 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single checker) late in the game. This strategy is more challenging than others to employ in Backgammon because it requires careful movement of your checkers and how the pieces are relocated is partly the result of the dice roll.