Backgammon Tricks

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As we dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a casino game of skill and good luck. The aim is to move your chips carefully around the game board to your home board while at the same time your opposition moves their chips toward their home board in the opposite direction. With opposing player chips moving in opposing directions there is bound to be conflict and the requirement for particular tactics at particular instances. Here are the two final Backgammon tactics to complete your game.

The Priming Game Plan

If the goal of the blocking tactic is to slow down the opponent to move their pieces, the Priming Game strategy is to absolutely block any movement of the opponent by creating a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s chips will either get bumped, or result a damaged position if she ever tries to leave the wall. The ambush of the prime can be built anywhere between point 2 and point eleven in your half of the board. Once you’ve successfully built the prime to block the movement of the opponent, the opponent does not even get to roll the dice, and you move your chips and toss the dice yet again. You’ll be a winner for sure.

The Back Game Technique

The objectives of the Back Game plan and the Blocking Game technique are very similar – to hinder your competitor’s positions in hope to better your odds of succeeding, however the Back Game tactic relies on different techniques to achieve that. The Back Game tactic is often used when you’re far behind your opponent. To compete in Backgammon with this tactic, you have to control 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This strategy is more difficult than others to employ in Backgammon seeing as it needs careful movement of your checkers and how the pieces are relocated is partly the result of the dice toss.