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As we have dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a casino game of ability and luck. The goal is to move your chips carefully around the game board to your inner board and at the same time your opposing player moves their chips toward their inside board in the opposite direction. With competing player pieces heading in opposing directions there is bound to be conflict and the need for particular techniques at particular times. Here are the last 2 Backgammon strategies to complete your game.

The Priming Game Plan

If the aim of the blocking tactic is to hamper the opponents ability to move his chips, the Priming Game tactic is to absolutely stop any activity of the opposing player by constructing a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s pieces will either get bumped, or end up in a damaged position if he ever tries to escape the wall. The trap of the prime can be established anyplace between point 2 and point eleven in your half of the board. After you have successfully built the prime to stop the movement of your opponent, your competitor does not even get to toss the dice, that means you move your pieces and toss the dice again. You’ll be a winner for sure.

The Back Game Strategy

The objectives of the Back Game technique and the Blocking Game tactic are similar – to hurt your competitor’s positions hoping to improve your odds of succeeding, however the Back Game technique utilizes alternate techniques to do that. The Back Game tactic is often utilized when you are far behind your competitor. To play Backgammon with this tactic, you need to hold two or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single checker) late in the game. This strategy is more complex than others to employ in Backgammon because it requires careful movement of your chips and how the checkers are relocated is partially the outcome of the dice toss.