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

The Priming Game Plan

If the goal of the blocking plan is to slow down the opponent to move their chips, the Priming Game plan is to absolutely block any movement of the opposing player by assembling 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 tries to escape the wall. The trap of the prime can be established anyplace between point two and point eleven in your half of the board. Once you’ve successfully built the prime to prevent the activity of your opponent, your opponent does not even get to toss the dice, and you shift your pieces and roll the dice again. You will be a winner for sure.

The Back Game Strategy

The goals of the Back Game strategy and the Blocking Game tactic are similar – to hurt your competitor’s positions hoping to boost your odds of succeeding, but the Back Game tactic relies on seperate techniques to do that. The Back Game technique is frequently used when you are far behind your opponent. To compete in Backgammon with this tactic, you need to hold two or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single piece) late in the game. This strategy is more complex than others to employ in Backgammon seeing as it needs careful movement of your chips and how the chips are relocated is partly the outcome of the dice roll.