Backgammon Tips

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As we have dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a casino game of talent and 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 inner board in the opposing direction. With opposing player chips heading in opposite directions there is bound to be conflict and the need for particular strategies at specific instances. Here are the last two Backgammon tactics to complete your game.

The Priming Game Tactic

If the goal of the blocking strategy is to slow down the opponent to move their checkers, the Priming Game strategy is to completely block any movement of the opposing player by creating a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s checkers will either get bumped, or end up in a bad position if he at all tries to escape the wall. The ambush of the prime can be built anyplace between point 2 and point eleven in your game board. Once you have successfully built the prime to block the movement of the competitor, the opponent does not even get a chance to toss the dice, that means you shift your checkers and roll the dice again. You’ll be a winner for sure.

The Back Game Plan

The aims of the Back Game strategy and the Blocking Game technique are very similar – to hinder your competitor’s positions with hope to boost your chances of succeeding, however the Back Game plan relies on different tactics to achieve that. The Back Game technique is often used when you’re far behind your competitor. To participate in Backgammon with this plan, you have to hold 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This technique is more complex than others to employ in Backgammon because it needs careful movement of your chips and how the chips are moved is partly the result of the dice roll.