Backgammon Strategy Backgammon Strategy for Dummies

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As we have dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a casino game of talent and luck. The goal is to shift your pieces carefully around the game board to your inside board while at the same time your opposing player moves their chips toward their inner board in the opposite direction. With opposing player checkers heading in opposite directions there is bound to be conflict and the requirement for specific tactics at specific times. Here are the last 2 Backgammon strategies to finish off your game.

The Priming Game Tactic

If the aim of the blocking plan is to hamper the opponents ability to shift her chips, the Priming Game plan is to completely stop any movement of the opponent by assembling a prime - ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent's checkers will either get hit, or end up in a damaged position if she at all tries to escape the wall. The ambush of the prime can be established anywhere between point two and point 11 in your half of the board. Once you've successfully assembled the prime to prevent the activity of your opponent, your competitor does not even get to roll the dice, that means you shift your pieces and roll the dice again. You will be a winner for sure.

The Back Game Plan

The goals of the Back Game technique and the Blocking Game tactic are very similar - to hinder your competitor's positions with hope to better your odds of succeeding, but the Back Game tactic uses different techniques to achieve that. The Back Game plan is generally employed when you are far behind your competitor. To play Backgammon with this technique, you have to control two or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single checker) late in the game. This tactic is more complex than others to use in Backgammon seeing as it requires careful movement of your chips and how the pieces are moved is partly the outcome of the dice toss.