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As we have dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a casino game of skill and good luck. The goal is to shift your checkers carefully around the game board to your inside board and at the same time your opposing player shifts their checkers toward their home board in the opposite direction. With opposing player chips moving in opposing directions there is bound to be conflict and the need for particular techniques at specific times. Here are the 2 final Backgammon strategies to finish off your game.

The Priming Game Strategy

If the goal of the blocking plan is to slow down the opponent to move his checkers, the Priming Game plan is to completely stop any activity of the opposing player by building a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s pieces will either get bumped, or end up in a battered position if he/she ever attempts to escape the wall. The ambush of the prime can be setup anyplace between point two and point 11 in your game board. After you’ve successfully built the prime to stop the movement of your competitor, your competitor doesn’t even get a chance to toss the dice, that means you shift your chips and roll the dice again. You will be a winner for sure.

The Back Game Plan

The objectives of the Back Game tactic and the Blocking Game technique are similar – to hinder your competitor’s positions hoping to better your odds of succeeding, however the Back Game technique relies on alternate tactics to do that. The Back Game strategy is generally employed when you are far behind your opponent. To play Backgammon with this technique, you have to hold 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single piece) late in the game. This technique is more complex than others to use in Backgammon seeing as it needs careful movement of your pieces and how the pieces are moved is partially the result of the dice roll.