Backgammon

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As we have dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a casino game of ability and pure luck. The goal is to shift your pieces carefully around the game board to your home board while at the same time your opposing player shifts their pieces toward their inside board in the opposing direction. With opposing player pieces heading in opposite directions there is bound to be conflict and the requirement for particular strategies at particular instances. 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 move her pieces, the Priming Game strategy is to completely barricade any activity of the opposing player by constructing a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s checkers will either get hit, or end up in a bad position if he/she ever tries to leave the wall. The ambush of the prime can be setup anywhere between point two and point 11 in your game board. After you’ve successfully built the prime to stop the movement of the opponent, the opponent does not 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 Plan

The objectives of the Back Game tactic and the Blocking Game technique are similar – to hurt your opponent’s positions with hope to boost your odds of winning, but the Back Game technique relies on alternate tactics to achieve that. The Back Game plan is often employed when you are far behind your opponent. To participate in Backgammon with this strategy, you need to control 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single checker) late in the game. This tactic is more difficult than others to play in Backgammon because it needs careful movement of your pieces and how the chips are relocated is partially the outcome of the dice roll.