Backgammon Tips Winning Backgammon Tips

Read more about the
Las Vegas 2024 Super
Bowl Streaker!

As we have dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a casino game of talent and luck. The aim is to move your chips carefully around the game board to your inner board while at the same time your opponent shifts their pieces toward their home board in the opposite direction. With competing player pieces heading in opposite directions there is going to be conflict and the need for specific techniques at specific times. Here are the two final Backgammon plans to round out your game.

The Priming Game Tactic

If the goal of the blocking tactic is to slow down the opponent to move his pieces, the Priming Game strategy is to absolutely stop any movement of the opposing player by assembling a prime - ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent's chips will either get hit, or end up in a damaged position if he at all tries to leave the wall. The ambush of the prime can be setup anyplace between point 2 and point 11 in your board. As soon as you have successfully built the prime to block the activity of your opponent, the opponent does not even get to toss the dice, and you shift your checkers and toss the dice yet again. You will win the game for sure.

The Back Game Tactic

The aims of the Back Game strategy and the Blocking Game plan are similar - to harm your opponent's positions in hope to boost your chances of winning, however the Back Game plan relies on different techniques to achieve that. The Back Game technique is generally used when you are far behind your opponent. To compete in Backgammon with this technique, you need to control 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single piece) late in the game. This tactic is more difficult than others to use in Backgammon seeing as it requires careful movement of your pieces and how the pieces are relocated is partially the result of the dice toss.