Backgammon Tricks

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As we dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a game of ability and pure luck. The goal is to move your checkers carefully around the board to your inside board and at the same time your opposition shifts their checkers toward their inside board in the opposing direction. With opposing player checkers shifting in opposing directions there is going to be conflict and the need for specific tactics at specific times. Here are the 2 final Backgammon strategies to complete your game.

The Priming Game Plan

If the goal of the blocking tactic is to slow down the opponent to move his pieces, the Priming Game plan is to completely barricade any movement of the opponent by creating a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s pieces will either get bumped, or end up in a damaged position if he ever attempts to escape the wall. The trap of the prime can be built anyplace between point two and point eleven in your half of the board. As soon as you have successfully assembled the prime to stop the movement of the competitor, the competitor doesn’t even get to toss the dice, that means you move your chips and toss the dice again. You’ll be a winner for sure.

The Back Game Tactic

The objectives of the Back Game technique and the Blocking Game plan are similar – to hurt your opponent’s positions hoping to better your odds of succeeding, but the Back Game plan uses different tactics to do that. The Back Game tactic is generally employed when you are far behind your opponent. To play Backgammon with this technique, you have to hold two or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single checker) late in the game. This plan is more complex than others to use in Backgammon seeing as it requires careful movement of your checkers and how the chips are relocated is partially the result of the dice toss.