Backgammon Tricks

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As we have dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a game of skill and good luck. The goal is to shift your chips safely around the game board to your inside board and at the same time your opposing player moves their pieces toward their home board in the opposing direction. With competing player chips shifting in opposite directions there is going to be conflict and the need for particular tactics at specific times. Here are the 2 final Backgammon techniques to round out your game.

The Priming Game Strategy

If the purpose of the blocking tactic is to slow down the opponent to shift his chips, the Priming Game tactic is to completely barricade any movement of the opponent by constructing a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s pieces will either get bumped, or result a bad position if he/she ever tries to leave the wall. The trap of the prime can be established anyplace between point 2 and point 11 in your half of the board. As soon as you’ve successfully built the prime to stop the activity of your competitor, your competitor doesn’t even get a chance to toss the dice, that means you shift your pieces and toss the dice yet again. You’ll win the game for sure.

The Back Game Tactic

The goals of the Back Game strategy and the Blocking Game strategy are very similar – to harm your competitor’s positions hoping to improve your odds of succeeding, however the Back Game plan relies on seperate techniques to achieve that. The Back Game technique is generally used when you’re far behind your competitor. To play Backgammon with this strategy, you need to hold two or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This strategy is more difficult than others to use in Backgammon because it requires careful movement of your pieces and how the checkers are relocated is partly the outcome of the dice toss.