Posted by Darien | Posted in Backgammon | Posted on 06-02-2025
As we have dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a game of skill and luck. The aim is to shift your chips carefully around the board to your home board while at the same time your opponent shifts their chips toward their inside board in the opposite direction. With competing player chips moving in opposing directions there is going to be conflict and the need for particular strategies at particular instances. Here are the 2 final Backgammon techniques to complete your game.
The Priming Game Tactic
If the goal of the blocking tactic is to slow down the opponent to move their chips, the Priming Game tactic is to absolutely stop any activity of the opponent by constructing a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s pieces will either get hit, or result a damaged position if she at all tries to escape the wall. The trap of the prime can be built anyplace between point 2 and point 11 in your game board. Once you’ve successfully built the prime to block the movement of the competitor, the competitor does not even get a chance to toss the dice, and you shift your checkers and roll the dice yet again. You will win the game for sure.
The Back Game Technique
The aims of the Back Game technique and the Blocking Game strategy are very similar – to harm your competitor’s positions hoping to boost your odds of winning, but the Back Game strategy relies on different techniques to achieve that. The Back Game strategy is commonly used when you are far behind your competitor. To play Backgammon with this technique, you have to control two or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single piece) late in the game. This technique is more complex than others to play in Backgammon because it requires careful movement of your pieces and how the chips are relocated is partly the result of the dice toss.