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As we have dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a casino game of skill and good luck. The aim is to move your pieces safely around the game board to your inside board and at the same time your opponent moves their checkers toward their inner board in the opposite direction. With opposing player chips shifting in opposite directions there is bound to be conflict and the requirement for specific strategies at particular times. Here are the last two Backgammon plans to round out your game.

The Priming Game Tactic

If the goal of the blocking plan is to hamper the opponents ability to move her chips, the Priming Game strategy is to completely block any activity of the opponent by building a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s chips will either get hit, or result a bad position if she ever attempts to escape the wall. The trap of the prime can be setup anyplace between point two and point eleven in your game board. Once you’ve successfully built the prime to prevent the activity of your opponent, the competitor doesn’t even get to toss the dice, and you shift your pieces and roll the dice yet again. You will be a winner for sure.

The Back Game Tactic

The aims of the Back Game plan and the Blocking Game strategy are similar – to harm your opponent’s positions hoping to improve your odds of succeeding, however the Back Game strategy utilizes alternate tactics to do that. The Back Game plan is generally utilized when you’re far behind your opponent. To compete in Backgammon with this tactic, you need to hold 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single checker) late in the game. This technique is more complex than others to play in Backgammon seeing as it needs careful movement of your pieces and how the checkers are relocated is partly the outcome of the dice toss.