The Essential Facts of Backgammon Game Plans – Part 2
Posted in Backgammon on 04/01/2025 09:25 pm by Madisyn
As we have dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a game of talent and luck. The goal is to move your checkers safely around the game board to your home board while at the same time your opposition shifts their pieces toward their home board in the opposing direction. With opposing player checkers moving in opposite directions there is going to be conflict and the need for particular strategies at specific instances. Here are the last 2 Backgammon strategies to round out your game.
The Priming Game Plan
If the purpose of the blocking tactic is to hamper the opponents ability to shift their chips, the Priming Game strategy is to completely barricade any movement of the opponent by building a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s chips will either get hit, or end up in a bad position if he at all attempts to escape the wall. The ambush of the prime can be established anywhere between point 2 and point eleven in your game board. After you’ve successfully assembled the prime to stop the movement of the opponent, the competitor does not even get to roll the dice, and you shift your pieces and toss the dice yet again. You’ll be a winner for sure.
The Back Game Strategy
The aims of the Back Game tactic and the Blocking Game plan are similar – to harm your competitor’s positions with hope to improve your odds of winning, however the Back Game strategy utilizes alternate tactics to achieve that. The Back Game tactic is commonly used when you’re far behind your opponent. To play Backgammon with this technique, you have to control 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single piece) late in the game. This tactic is more complex than others to play in Backgammon seeing as it requires careful movement of your pieces and how the pieces are relocated is partly the result of the dice toss.