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As we have dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a casino game of skill and pure luck. The aim is to shift your pieces carefully around the game board to your inside board and at the same time your opposing player moves their checkers toward their inner board in the opposing direction. With competing player chips heading in opposite directions there is bound to be conflict and the need for particular tactics at particular times. Here are the 2 final Backgammon plans to finish off your game.

The Priming Game Strategy

If the goal of the blocking tactic is to hamper the opponents ability to shift her checkers, the Priming Game strategy is to absolutely barricade any activity of the opponent by creating a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s checkers will either get hit, or end up in a battered position if she at all attempts to escape the wall. The ambush of the prime can be established anyplace between point two and point 11 in your board. As soon as you have successfully assembled the prime to stop the activity of the opponent, the opponent doesn’t even get to roll the dice, and you shift your chips and toss the dice again. You’ll be a winner for sure.

The Back Game Tactic

The goals of the Back Game plan and the Blocking Game tactic are similar – to hurt your competitor’s positions hoping to better your chances of succeeding, but the Back Game technique utilizes different tactics to do that. The Back Game plan is frequently employed when you’re far behind your competitor. To play Backgammon with this technique, you need to control 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This strategy is more challenging than others to play in Backgammon seeing as it needs careful movement of your checkers and how the checkers are relocated is partially the result of the dice toss.