As we dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a game of ability and good luck. The aim is to move your chips carefully around the board to your inside board while at the same time your opposing player moves their chips toward their home board in the opposite direction. With competing player checkers moving in opposing directions there is bound to be conflict and the requirement for specific techniques at specific times. Here are the 2 final Backgammon plans to complete your game.

The Priming Game Strategy

If the goal of the blocking tactic is to slow down the opponent to move his pieces, the Priming Game strategy is to completely barricade any movement of the opponent by creating a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s chips will either get hit, or end up in a bad position if he/she at all tries to escape the wall. The trap of the prime can be built anyplace between point two and point eleven in your half of the board. After you have successfully constructed the prime to prevent the movement of your competitor, the opponent doesn’t even get a chance to toss the dice, and you shift your pieces and toss the dice yet again. You’ll win the game for sure.

The Back Game Strategy

The goals of the Back Game plan and the Blocking Game tactic are similar – to hinder your competitor’s positions hoping to improve your chances of succeeding, but the Back Game tactic uses seperate techniques to achieve that. The Back Game tactic is commonly utilized when you’re far behind your opponent. To compete in Backgammon with this strategy, you have to hold 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This plan is more challenging than others to use in Backgammon seeing as it needs careful movement of your pieces and how the pieces are moved is partially the result of the dice roll.