The Essential Basics of Backgammon Tactics – Part Two
As we have dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a game of skill and good luck. The goal is to shift your pieces carefully around the game board to your home board while at the same time your opposition shifts their checkers toward their inside board in the opposing direction. With opposing player chips shifting in opposite directions there is bound to be conflict and the requirement for particular tactics at particular instances. Here are the two final Backgammon strategies to complete your game.
The Priming Game Strategy
If the goal of the blocking strategy is to hamper the opponents ability to shift his checkers, the Priming Game tactic is to completely barricade any activity of the opponent by assembling a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s checkers will either get bumped, or result a damaged position if she ever attempts to leave the wall. The trap of the prime can be established anywhere between point 2 and point eleven in your game board. Once you’ve successfully built the prime to block the activity of the competitor, the opponent does not even get to roll the dice, that means you shift your pieces and toss the dice yet again. You’ll win the game for sure.
The Back Game Strategy
The goals of the Back Game plan and the Blocking Game strategy are similar – to harm your competitor’s positions in hope to improve your chances of winning, but the Back Game strategy relies on alternate techniques to do that. The Back Game strategy is generally used when you are far behind your competitor. To play Backgammon with this tactic, you need to hold two or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This tactic is more challenging than others to use in Backgammon because it needs careful movement of your checkers and how the pieces are moved is partly the result of the dice toss.

