Backgammon

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As we have dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a game of talent and good luck. The goal is to shift your checkers safely around the board to your inner board while at the same time your opponent shifts their pieces toward their inner board in the opposite direction. With opposing player checkers shifting in opposite directions there is going to be conflict and the need for specific strategies at specific instances. Here are the two final Backgammon strategies to round out your game.

The Priming Game Tactic

If the goal of the blocking plan is to hamper the opponents ability to move their pieces, the Priming Game plan is to completely barricade any movement of the opponent by assembling 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 ever tries to escape the wall. The ambush of the prime can be built anyplace between point 2 and point 11 in your board. Once you’ve successfully built the prime to block the movement of the competitor, the competitor does not even get to roll the dice, that means you shift your chips and roll the dice yet again. You’ll win the game for sure.

The Back Game Tactic

The objectives of the Back Game tactic and the Blocking Game plan are very similar – to harm your competitor’s positions with hope to boost your chances of winning, but the Back Game strategy relies on alternate tactics to do that. The Back Game strategy is frequently utilized when you’re far behind your opponent. To play Backgammon with this tactic, you need to control 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This tactic is more challenging than others to employ in Backgammon seeing as it needs careful movement of your chips and how the checkers are moved is partly the outcome of the dice roll.