As we have dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a casino game of ability and luck. The goal is to move your chips carefully around the board to your home board and at the same time your opposing player shifts their checkers toward their inner board in the opposite direction. With opposing player chips heading in opposite directions there is bound to be conflict and the need for specific tactics at particular times. Here are the 2 final Backgammon strategies to finish off your game.

The Priming Game Tactic

If the goal of the blocking plan is to hamper the opponents ability to shift his checkers, the Priming Game strategy is to absolutely barricade any movement of the opponent by constructing a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s pieces will either get bumped, or end up in a bad position if he/she ever tries to leave the wall. The trap of the prime can be built anywhere between point two and point eleven in your game board. As soon as you’ve successfully assembled the prime to stop the activity of your competitor, your competitor doesn’t even get to roll the dice, that means you move your checkers and roll the dice again. You will be a winner for sure.

The Back Game Tactic

The objectives of the Back Game plan and the Blocking Game strategy are similar – to hinder your opponent’s positions hoping to improve your odds of succeeding, however the Back Game strategy uses seperate techniques to do that. The Back Game strategy is generally used when you are far behind your opponent. To play Backgammon with this tactic, you have to control 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This technique is more challenging than others to play in Backgammon seeing as it needs careful movement of your checkers and how the checkers are moved is partly the result of the dice toss.