Backgammon

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As we have dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a casino game of talent and pure luck. The aim is to move your chips safely around the board to your inside board and at the same time your opposition moves their chips toward their inside board in the opposing direction. With competing player checkers heading in opposite directions there is bound to be conflict and the requirement for specific tactics at specific instances. Here are the 2 final Backgammon strategies to round out your game.

The Priming Game Plan

If the goal of the blocking tactic is to hamper the opponents ability to shift his pieces, the Priming Game strategy is to completely stop any movement of the opposing player by constructing a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s chips will either get hit, or end up in a damaged position if she ever attempts to escape the wall. The trap of the prime can be setup anywhere between point 2 and point 11 in your game board. After you have successfully built the prime to block the movement of your competitor, your opponent doesn’t even get a chance to toss the dice, and you move your checkers and toss the dice again. You’ll be a winner for sure.

The Back Game Tactic

The aims of the Back Game strategy and the Blocking Game technique are very similar – to harm your competitor’s positions in hope to improve your odds of succeeding, but the Back Game technique uses alternate techniques to do that. The Back Game strategy is often employed when you’re far behind your opponent. To participate in Backgammon with this plan, you have to control two or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single checker) late in the game. This tactic is more complex than others to employ in Backgammon because it needs careful movement of your checkers and how the chips are relocated is partly the outcome of the dice roll.