Backgammon Tricks

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As we have dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a game of ability and pure luck. The goal is to move your checkers safely around the game board to your inner board while at the same time your opposition moves their chips toward their inside board in the opposite direction. With competing player pieces moving in opposite directions there is going to be conflict and the need for particular strategies at specific times. Here are the last 2 Backgammon techniques to round out your game.

The Priming Game Plan

If the goal of the blocking plan is to hamper the opponents ability to shift her checkers, the Priming Game strategy is to completely barricade any movement of the opponent by constructing a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s chips will either get hit, or result a bad position if he/she ever tries to escape 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 built the prime to block the movement of the competitor, your opponent doesn’t even get a chance to toss the dice, that means you move your pieces and toss the dice yet again. You will win the game for sure.

The Back Game Technique

The goals of the Back Game technique and the Blocking Game tactic are very similar – to harm your competitor’s positions in hope to improve your odds of winning, but the Back Game strategy relies on seperate techniques to do that. The Back Game tactic is generally employed when you are far behind your opponent. To play Backgammon with this strategy, you need to hold 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This plan is more difficult than others to employ in Backgammon seeing as it needs careful movement of your chips and how the chips are moved is partially the result of the dice roll.