As we dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a casino game of skill and pure luck. The aim is to shift your chips carefully around the board to your home board while at the same time your opponent shifts their pieces toward their home board in the opposite direction. With competing player chips moving in opposite directions there is going to be conflict and the requirement for specific tactics at particular instances. Here are the two final Backgammon plans to round out your game.

The Priming Game Strategy

If the aim of the blocking tactic is to hamper the opponents ability to shift his checkers, the Priming Game tactic is to completely block any activity of the opponent by building a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s pieces will either get bumped, or result a damaged position if he/she ever tries to escape the wall. The ambush of the prime can be built anywhere between point two and point 11 in your board. As soon as you have successfully built the prime to stop the activity of your opponent, your competitor doesn’t even get a chance to roll the dice, and you move your chips and toss the dice yet again. You’ll win the game for sure.

The Back Game Technique

The aims of the Back Game tactic and the Blocking Game plan are similar – to hurt your opponent’s positions in hope to improve your chances of winning, however the Back Game strategy relies on alternate tactics to do that. The Back Game plan is often utilized when you are far behind your competitor. To play Backgammon with this technique, you have to control two or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single checker) late in the game. This plan is more challenging than others to employ in Backgammon seeing as it requires careful movement of your pieces and how the pieces are relocated is partially the outcome of the dice roll.