The Essential Details of Backgammon Tactics – Part Two


As we dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a game of talent and luck. The aim is to move your pieces safely around the game board to your inner board while at the same time your opposing player shifts their checkers toward their inside board in the opposite direction. With competing player pieces heading in opposing directions there is going to be conflict and the requirement for particular tactics at specific instances. Here are the 2 final Backgammon strategies to finish off your game.

The Priming Game Strategy

If the purpose of the blocking tactic is to hamper the opponents ability to move her pieces, the Priming Game plan 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 ever tries to leave the wall. The trap of the prime can be established anyplace between point two and point 11 in your board. After you have successfully built the prime to block the activity of the competitor, the competitor doesn’t even get a chance to toss the dice, that means you shift your chips and roll the dice again. You’ll be a winner for sure.

The Back Game Strategy

The goals of the Back Game strategy and the Blocking Game strategy are very similar – to harm your competitor’s positions with hope to improve your chances of succeeding, however the Back Game tactic utilizes seperate tactics to do that. The Back Game technique is commonly used when you’re far behind your opponent. To play Backgammon with this strategy, you need to control 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This technique is more challenging than others to employ in Backgammon seeing as it requires careful movement of your checkers and how the chips are moved is partly the outcome of the dice roll.

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