As we have dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a game of talent and good luck. The goal is to shift your checkers safely around the game board to your inside board and at the same time your opposition moves their checkers toward their home board in the opposing direction. With opposing player chips moving in opposing directions there is going to be conflict and the need for particular strategies at specific times. Here are the last two Backgammon strategies to complete your game.

The Priming Game Strategy

If the goal of the blocking plan is to slow down the opponent to move her chips, the Priming Game strategy is to absolutely stop any activity of the opposing player by assembling a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s pieces will either get hit, or result a battered position if he/she at all tries to escape the wall. The trap of the prime can be built anyplace between point 2 and point 11 in your game board. After you’ve successfully constructed the prime to prevent the movement of the competitor, your opponent doesn’t even get to toss the dice, that means you shift your pieces and toss the dice again. You will win the game for sure.

The Back Game Strategy

The objectives of the Back Game strategy and the Blocking Game strategy are very similar – to hinder your competitor’s positions in hope to improve your odds of succeeding, but the Back Game strategy utilizes different tactics to do that. The Back Game plan is often employed when you’re far behind your competitor. To compete in Backgammon with this plan, you have to hold two or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This strategy is more difficult than others to employ in Backgammon because it needs careful movement of your chips and how the checkers are moved is partially the result of the dice toss.