The Essential Facts of Backgammon Tactics – Part Two
Posted in Backgammon on 03/08/2025 12:25 am by Zaire
As we dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a game of ability and luck. The aim is to shift your pieces carefully around the board to your inside board while at the same time your opponent shifts their checkers toward their inner board in the opposite direction. With opposing player checkers moving in opposite directions there is going to be conflict and the need for particular techniques at particular instances. Here are the last two Backgammon techniques to complete your game.
The Priming Game Plan
If the goal of the blocking tactic is to hamper the opponents ability to shift his checkers, the Priming Game tactic is to absolutely barricade any movement of the opponent by constructing a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s chips will either get bumped, or end up in a battered position if he ever attempts to leave the wall. The trap of the prime can be built anywhere between point two and point eleven in your game board. Once you have successfully assembled the prime to stop the movement of your opponent, your competitor does not even get a chance to roll the dice, that means you move your chips and toss the dice again. You will be a winner for sure.
The Back Game Technique
The objectives of the Back Game tactic and the Blocking Game plan are similar – to harm your opponent’s positions with hope to boost your chances of winning, but the Back Game plan uses alternate tactics to do that. The Back Game technique is frequently utilized when you are far behind your competitor. To play Backgammon with this technique, you need to hold two or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This technique is more difficult than others to use in Backgammon seeing as it needs careful movement of your chips and how the chips are moved is partly the result of the dice roll.