Backgammon Strategy Backgammon Strategy for Dummies

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As we have dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a game of talent and pure luck. The aim is to shift your chips carefully around the board to your inside board and at the same time your opposition shifts their pieces toward their home board in the opposing direction. With opposing player checkers heading in opposing directions there is bound to be conflict and the need for specific techniques at particular times. Here are the two final Backgammon plans to complete your game.

The Priming Game Plan

If the aim of the blocking tactic is to hamper the opponents ability to shift her chips, the Priming Game plan is to completely barricade any movement of the opponent by constructing 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 at all tries to escape the wall. The trap of the prime can be setup anyplace between point two and point eleven in your half of the board. As soon as you've successfully built the prime to stop the movement of your opponent, the opponent does not even get a chance to toss the dice, and you shift your checkers and roll the dice yet again. You'll win the game for sure.

The Back Game Plan

The aims of the Back Game technique and the Blocking Game tactic are very similar - to harm your competitor's positions in hope to better your chances of succeeding, however the Back Game plan utilizes alternate techniques to achieve that. The Back Game technique is generally used when you're far behind your competitor. To play Backgammon with this tactic, 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 because it requires careful movement of your pieces and how the chips are moved is partly the result of the dice roll.