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As we have dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a casino game of ability and pure luck. The goal is to move your chips safely around the game board to your inside board and at the same time your opponent shifts their checkers toward their home board in the opposing direction. With opposing player checkers moving in opposite directions there is going to be conflict and the requirement for particular strategies at particular times. Here are the last 2 Backgammon strategies to complete your game.

The Priming Game Strategy

If the aim of the blocking plan is to hamper the opponents ability to move their pieces, the Priming Game plan is to absolutely block any activity of the opponent by constructing a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s chips will either get bumped, or end up in a bad position if he 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 movement of the opponent, your opponent doesn’t even get to roll the dice, that means you move your pieces and roll the dice yet again. You’ll win the game for sure.

The Back Game Tactic

The objectives of the Back Game strategy and the Blocking Game tactic are similar – to hinder your competitor’s positions in hope to improve your odds of winning, but the Back Game plan uses different tactics to achieve that. The Back Game strategy is commonly employed when you’re far behind your competitor. To play Backgammon with this strategy, you need to hold two or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single piece) late in the game. This technique is more challenging than others to use in Backgammon because it needs careful movement of your pieces and how the chips are relocated is partly the outcome of the dice roll.