Backgammon

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As we dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a game of ability and pure luck. The aim is to move your pieces carefully around the game board to your inside board and at the same time your opposing player shifts their checkers toward their home board in the opposite direction. With opposing player checkers shifting in opposing directions there is bound to be conflict and the requirement for particular techniques at specific instances. Here are the last two Backgammon techniques to finish off your game.

The Priming Game Tactic

If the goal of the blocking plan is to slow down the opponent to shift their chips, the Priming Game tactic is to completely stop any activity of the opponent by assembling a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s checkers will either get bumped, or result a bad position if she at all attempts to escape the wall. The trap of the prime can be established anywhere between point two and point 11 in your game board. Once you have successfully assembled the prime to block the activity of your opponent, your opponent does not even get a chance to toss the dice, that means you move your pieces and toss the dice again. You will win the game for sure.

The Back Game Technique

The aims of the Back Game tactic and the Blocking Game tactic are very similar – to harm your competitor’s positions with hope to better your odds of succeeding, but the Back Game technique relies on different tactics to achieve that. The Back Game plan is often employed when you’re far behind your competitor. To participate in Backgammon with this tactic, you need to control 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single checker) late in the game. This tactic is more difficult than others to use in Backgammon seeing as it needs careful movement of your checkers and how the chips are moved is partly the result of the dice toss.