The Essential Basics of Backgammon Tactics – Part 2
Friday, 18. April 2025
As we have dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a casino game of talent and good luck. The goal is to move your pieces carefully around the board to your inside board and at the same time your opposing player shifts their checkers toward their home board in the opposite direction. With opposing player pieces shifting in opposite directions there is going to be conflict and the need for particular strategies at particular instances. Here are the 2 final Backgammon plans to finish off your game.
The Priming Game Tactic
If the purpose of the blocking plan is to hamper the opponents ability to shift their checkers, 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 battered position if she at all tries to leave the wall. The trap of the prime can be established anyplace between point 2 and point eleven in your game board. Once you’ve successfully built the prime to block the activity of your competitor, the opponent does not even get a chance to roll the dice, and you shift your pieces and roll the dice again. You’ll be a winner for sure.
The Back Game Tactic
The aims of the Back Game plan and the Blocking Game technique are very similar – to hurt your opponent’s positions hoping to improve your chances of succeeding, but the Back Game technique uses alternate techniques to achieve that. The Back Game strategy is commonly used when you’re far behind your competitor. To play Backgammon with this tactic, you have to hold 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single checker) late in the game. This plan is more complex than others to use in Backgammon seeing as it needs careful movement of your checkers and how the chips are moved is partly the outcome of the dice toss.
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