As we have dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a casino game of skill and good luck. The goal is to shift your chips safely around the board to your inside board while at the same time your opponent shifts their chips toward their inside board in the opposing direction. With opposing player pieces heading in opposite directions there is bound to be conflict and the need for specific strategies at specific instances. Here are the last 2 Backgammon strategies to round out your game.

The Priming Game Plan

If the aim of the blocking tactic is to hamper the opponents ability to shift his chips, the Priming Game tactic is to completely barricade any movement of the opponent by creating a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s pieces will either get hit, or result a battered position if he/she at all attempts to leave the wall. The trap of the prime can be established anyplace between point two and point eleven in your game board. Once you have successfully assembled the prime to stop the activity of the opponent, the competitor doesn’t even get a chance to toss the dice, that means you shift your checkers and roll the dice yet again. You will win the game for sure.

The Back Game Plan

The objectives of the Back Game strategy and the Blocking Game technique are very similar – to harm your opponent’s positions in hope to boost your odds of succeeding, however the Back Game tactic relies on alternate tactics to achieve that. The Back Game tactic is often utilized when you are far behind your competitor. 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 technique is more complex than others to use in Backgammon seeing as it requires careful movement of your chips and how the pieces are moved is partially the result of the dice toss.