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 move your pieces safely around the board to your inner board while at the same time your opposing player shifts their checkers toward their inner board in the opposite direction. With opposing player chips moving in opposite directions there is going to be conflict and the requirement for specific strategies at specific instances. Here are the last two Backgammon tactics to round out your game.

The Priming Game Strategy

If the aim of the blocking tactic is to hamper the opponents ability to shift his checkers, the Priming Game plan is to absolutely block any activity of the opponent by building a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s chips will either get hit, or result a battered position if she at all tries to leave the wall. The ambush of the prime can be setup anywhere between point two and point eleven in your game board. Once you have successfully assembled the prime to prevent the movement of your opponent, the opponent does not even get to toss the dice, and you shift your pieces and roll the dice again. You’ll be a winner for sure.

The Back Game Strategy

The objectives of the Back Game technique and the Blocking Game tactic are similar – to hurt your competitor’s positions in hope to better your odds of winning, but the Back Game plan uses different techniques to do that. The Back Game plan is generally employed when you’re far behind your opponent. To participate in Backgammon with this strategy, you have to control two or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single piece) late in the game. This technique is more complex than others to play in Backgammon seeing as it needs careful movement of your chips and how the chips are moved is partially the outcome of the dice toss.