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 luck. The aim is to move your checkers carefully around the board to your inner board while at the same time your opposition moves their chips toward their home board in the opposing direction. With competing player pieces heading in opposing directions there is bound to be conflict and the need for specific tactics at particular times. Here are the two final 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 his checkers, the Priming Game plan is to absolutely block any activity 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 bad position if he at all attempts to leave the wall. The ambush of the prime can be built anywhere between point 2 and point eleven in your board. Once you have successfully constructed the prime to block the activity of the competitor, your competitor doesn't even get a chance to toss the dice, and you shift your pieces and roll the dice again. You'll be a winner for sure.

The Back Game Technique

The goals of the Back Game strategy and the Blocking Game strategy are similar - to harm your opponent's positions hoping to improve your odds of winning, however the Back Game plan uses seperate tactics to achieve that. The Back Game strategy is commonly utilized when you are far behind your opponent. To play Backgammon with this strategy, you need to control 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This strategy is more challenging than others to play in Backgammon seeing as it requires careful movement of your pieces and how the checkers are moved is partially the outcome of the dice toss.