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As we have dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a casino game of skill and luck. The goal is to move your pieces safely around the board to your inside board while at the same time your opponent moves their chips toward their inner board in the opposing direction. With competing player chips heading in opposite directions there is going to be conflict and the requirement for specific strategies at specific times. Here are the two final Backgammon plans to complete your game.

The Priming Game Strategy

If the goal of the blocking tactic is to slow down the opponent to shift their chips, the Priming Game plan is to absolutely block any movement of the opponent by building a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s checkers will either get bumped, or result a battered position if he at all tries to escape the wall. The trap of the prime can be built anywhere between point 2 and point eleven in your game board. Once you’ve successfully built the prime to block the movement of your opponent, your opponent doesn’t even get to roll the dice, and you move your chips and toss the dice again. You’ll be a winner for sure.

The Back Game Technique

The aims of the Back Game tactic and the Blocking Game tactic are similar – to hurt your opponent’s positions with hope to boost your chances of succeeding, but the Back Game plan uses alternate tactics to achieve that. The Back Game plan is generally utilized when you’re far behind your competitor. To play Backgammon with this technique, you have to hold two or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single piece) late in the game. This tactic is more challenging than others to play in Backgammon seeing as it requires careful movement of your checkers and how the pieces are moved is partially the result of the dice toss.