The Essential Basics of Backgammon Game Plans – Part Two


As we dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a casino game of skill and pure luck. The aim is to move your pieces carefully around the board to your home board while at the same time your opposing player moves their checkers toward their inside board in the opposite direction. With competing player pieces shifting in opposite directions there is going to be conflict and the need for specific techniques at particular instances. Here are the 2 final Backgammon plans to round out your game.

The Priming Game Strategy

If the goal of the blocking tactic is to hamper the opponents ability to move their pieces, the Priming Game plan is to completely block any movement of the opposing player by constructing a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s pieces will either get bumped, or end up in a battered position if she at all attempts to escape the wall. The ambush of the prime can be established anywhere between point 2 and point eleven in your game board. As soon as you have successfully built the prime to stop the movement of the opponent, your competitor doesn’t even get to toss the dice, that means you shift your chips and toss the dice again. You’ll be a winner for sure.

The Back Game Plan

The goals of the Back Game technique and the Blocking Game tactic are similar – to harm your competitor’s positions in hope to better your odds of winning, but the Back Game strategy utilizes seperate techniques to achieve that. The Back Game plan is often used when you’re far behind your opponent. To participate in Backgammon with this strategy, you have to hold two or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single piece) late in the game. This tactic is more complex than others to use in Backgammon seeing as it needs careful movement of your chips and how the chips are moved is partly the result of the dice roll.

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