Backgammon Tips

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As we have dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a game of talent and pure luck. The goal is to move your pieces safely around the board to your inside board and at the same time your opposing player moves their chips toward their home board in the opposing direction. With opposing player chips shifting in opposite directions there is bound to be conflict and the need for specific strategies at specific instances. Here are the two final Backgammon tactics to complete your game.

The Priming Game Strategy

If the goal of the blocking strategy is to slow down the opponent to move his checkers, the Priming Game plan is to completely barricade any activity of the opposing player by creating a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s pieces will either get hit, or end up in a battered position if he/she at all tries to leave the wall. The trap of the prime can be built anyplace between point two and point 11 in your half of the board. After you’ve successfully assembled the prime to stop the movement of the opponent, your opponent doesn’t even get a chance to roll the dice, that means you move your chips and roll the dice again. You will win the game for sure.

The Back Game Technique

The objectives of the Back Game tactic and the Blocking Game technique are very similar – to harm your opponent’s positions with hope to better your odds of succeeding, but the Back Game tactic relies on different techniques to do that. The Back Game strategy is generally used when you are far behind your opponent. To compete in Backgammon with this plan, you have to control 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This tactic is more complex than others to play in Backgammon because it needs careful movement of your chips and how the checkers are relocated is partly the result of the dice roll.