As we dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a casino game of ability and pure luck. The aim is to shift your chips safely around the game board to your home board while at the same time your opponent shifts their checkers toward their inside board in the opposing direction. With opposing player pieces shifting in opposite directions there is going to be conflict and the need for particular tactics at specific times. Here are the last two Backgammon strategies to round out your game.

The Priming Game Plan

If the goal of the blocking plan is to slow down the opponent to move their checkers, the Priming Game plan is to absolutely block any activity of the opposing player by assembling a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s pieces will either get hit, or end up in a battered position if he/she ever tries to leave the wall. The ambush of the prime can be established anywhere between point 2 and point eleven in your game board. After you have successfully built the prime to stop the movement of the competitor, your competitor doesn’t even get to roll the dice, that means you move your pieces and toss the dice yet again. You’ll win the game for sure.

The Back Game Technique

The aims of the Back Game plan and the Blocking Game plan are similar – to hinder your competitor’s positions with hope to better your odds of winning, but the Back Game tactic relies on different tactics to achieve that. The Back Game strategy is commonly employed when you’re far behind your opponent. To play Backgammon with this strategy, you have to control 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single piece) late in the game. This tactic is more complex than others to use in Backgammon because it needs careful movement of your checkers and how the checkers are moved is partly the result of the dice toss.