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 pure luck. The goal is to shift your chips carefully around the game board to your inner board while at the same time your opposing player moves their pieces toward their home board in the opposing direction. With opposing player checkers heading in opposing directions there is going to be conflict and the need for specific techniques at particular instances. Here are the last 2 Backgammon tactics to complete your game.

The Priming Game Plan

If the goal of the blocking plan is to slow down the opponent to move her chips, the Priming Game plan is to completely stop any movement of the opposing player by building a prime - ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent's pieces will either get bumped, or end up in a bad position if he/she at all tries to escape the wall. The trap of the prime can be built anyplace between point 2 and point 11 in your board. Once you have successfully assembled the prime to stop the activity of the opponent, the opponent does not even get to roll the dice, that means you move 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 harm your competitor's positions with hope to improve your chances of winning, but the Back Game plan relies on seperate techniques to do that. The Back Game technique is commonly utilized when you're far behind your opponent. To play Backgammon with this technique, you have to hold two or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single checker) late in the game. This plan is more challenging than others to use in Backgammon seeing as it needs careful movement of your checkers and how the checkers are relocated is partially the result of the dice toss.