Backgammon

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As we have dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a casino game of ability and pure luck. The aim is to move your pieces safely around the board to your inside board and at the same time your opponent shifts their checkers toward their inside board in the opposing direction. With competing player chips shifting in opposing directions there is going to be conflict and the requirement for specific strategies at specific instances. Here are the two final Backgammon tactics to finish off your game.

The Priming Game Plan

If the purpose of the blocking tactic is to hamper the opponents ability to shift his pieces, the Priming Game strategy is to completely block any movement of the opposing player by assembling a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s chips will either get hit, or end up in a bad position if he/she at all tries to escape the wall. The trap of the prime can be established anyplace between point two and point 11 in your board. Once you have successfully built the prime to stop the movement of your competitor, the competitor doesn’t even get to roll the dice, that means you move your chips and toss the dice yet again. You will win the game for sure.

The Back Game Plan

The goals of the Back Game strategy and the Blocking Game technique are very similar – to harm your competitor’s positions hoping to improve your chances of winning, but the Back Game strategy utilizes alternate tactics to do that. The Back Game tactic is often employed when you’re far behind your competitor. To play Backgammon with this plan, you have to control 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This strategy is more complex than others to use in Backgammon seeing as it needs careful movement of your chips and how the checkers are relocated is partially the outcome of the dice roll.