As we dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a casino game of ability and pure luck. The aim is to move your pieces carefully around the board to your inside board and at the same time your opposition moves their chips toward their inner board in the opposite direction. With competing player chips shifting in opposite directions there is bound to be conflict and the requirement for particular tactics at particular instances. Here are the last two Backgammon strategies to finish off your game.

The Priming Game Plan

If the goal of the blocking tactic is to hamper the opponents ability to shift their chips, the Priming Game tactic is to completely barricade any activity of the opponent by building a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s chips will either get hit, or result a battered position if he ever tries to leave 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 activity of the opponent, your opponent does not even get a chance to toss the dice, and you move your chips and roll the dice yet again. You will be a winner for sure.

The Back Game Strategy

The goals of the Back Game strategy and the Blocking Game technique are very similar – to harm your competitor’s positions in hope to better your odds of succeeding, but the Back Game strategy utilizes seperate tactics to do that. The Back Game tactic is generally used when you’re far behind your competitor. To compete in Backgammon with this tactic, you need to control two or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single piece) late in the game. This strategy is more difficult than others to play in Backgammon because it needs careful movement of your pieces and how the checkers are moved is partly the outcome of the dice toss.