Backgammon Tips Winning Backgammon Tips

Read more about the
Las Vegas 2024 Super
Bowl Streaker!

As we dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a game of skill and luck. The aim is to shift your pieces safely around the board to your inner board and at the same time your opponent moves their pieces toward their inner board in the opposite direction. With competing player pieces heading in opposite directions there is going to be conflict and the need for specific tactics at specific instances. Here are the last two Backgammon tactics to round out your game.

The Priming Game Tactic

If the purpose of the blocking plan is to slow down the opponent to move his pieces, the Priming Game tactic is to absolutely block any activity of the opponent by assembling a prime - ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor's checkers will either get hit, or result a bad position if he/she ever attempts to escape the wall. The trap of the prime can be built anyplace between point two and point 11 in your game board. Once you have successfully assembled the prime to stop the activity of the opponent, your opponent doesn't even get to roll the dice, and you shift your chips and roll the dice again. You will win the game for sure.

The Back Game Strategy

The objectives of the Back Game strategy and the Blocking Game strategy are similar - to harm your competitor's positions in hope to improve your odds of winning, but the Back Game tactic relies on different tactics to achieve that. The Back Game tactic is generally utilized when you're far behind your opponent. To play Backgammon with this technique, you need to hold two or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single checker) late in the game. This strategy is more difficult than others to use in Backgammon seeing as it requires careful movement of your chips and how the chips are moved is partly the result of the dice roll.