Backgammon Strategy Backgammon Strategy for Dummies

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As we dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a game of ability and luck. The aim is to move your pieces carefully around the board to your inside board and at the same time your opponent shifts their checkers toward their home board in the opposite direction. With competing player chips heading in opposing directions there is bound to be conflict and the requirement for particular tactics at particular times. Here are the last two Backgammon techniques to complete your game.

The Priming Game Plan

If the aim of the blocking strategy is to hamper the opponents ability to shift their chips, the Priming Game plan is to completely stop any movement of the opposing player by creating a prime - ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent's pieces will either get bumped, or end up in a damaged position if he/she ever tries to escape the wall. The trap of the prime can be established anywhere between point 2 and point eleven in your half of the board. After you've successfully built the prime to block the movement of your opponent, the competitor doesn't even get a chance to roll the dice, and you move your pieces and toss the dice again. You will be a winner for sure.

The Back Game Strategy

The objectives of the Back Game tactic and the Blocking Game tactic are very similar - to hinder your competitor's positions hoping to improve your odds of winning, however the Back Game technique utilizes alternate tactics to achieve that. The Back Game strategy is often used when you are far behind your opponent. To compete in Backgammon with this technique, you need to hold 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This technique is more challenging than others to use in Backgammon because it requires careful movement of your checkers and how the chips are moved is partly the outcome of the dice roll.