Backgammon Strategy Backgammon Strategy for Dummies

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As we have dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a game of skill and good luck. The goal is to shift your chips carefully around the board to your home board while at the same time your opponent shifts their pieces toward their home board in the opposing direction. With competing player chips heading in opposing directions there is going to be conflict and the need for specific techniques at particular times. Here are the 2 final Backgammon plans to complete your game.

The Priming Game Strategy

If the purpose of the blocking strategy is to slow down the opponent to move their chips, the Priming Game strategy is to completely barricade any activity of the opponent by assembling a prime - ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor's chips will either get hit, or result a battered position if he at all tries to leave the wall. The ambush of the prime can be setup anywhere between point two and point 11 in your half of the board. As soon as you have successfully assembled the prime to prevent the movement of your competitor, your competitor does not even get a chance to toss the dice, that means you shift your checkers and toss the dice again. You'll win the game for sure.

The Back Game Strategy

The objectives of the Back Game tactic and the Blocking Game technique are similar - to hurt your opponent's positions with hope to improve your chances of winning, but the Back Game tactic relies on alternate tactics to do that. The Back Game technique is commonly used when you're far behind your competitor. To compete in Backgammon with this plan, you need to hold two or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This plan is more complex than others to play in Backgammon because it needs careful movement of your chips and how the checkers are relocated is partially the outcome of the dice roll.