As we dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a casino game of skill and luck. The goal is to shift your checkers safely around the board to your home board while at the same time your opposing player shifts their pieces toward their inside board in the opposing direction. With competing player checkers shifting in opposing directions there is bound to be conflict and the need for specific strategies at specific times. Here are the two final Backgammon strategies to finish off your game.

The Priming Game Tactic

If the aim of the blocking plan is to slow down the opponent to move her chips, the Priming Game plan is to completely barricade any movement of the opponent by assembling a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s chips will either get bumped, or end up in a damaged position if she ever attempts to leave the wall. The ambush of the prime can be setup anyplace between point 2 and point eleven in your game board. Once you have successfully constructed the prime to block the activity of your opponent, your competitor does not even get a chance to toss the dice, that means you shift your checkers and toss the dice yet again. You’ll be a winner for sure.

The Back Game Strategy

The goals of the Back Game plan and the Blocking Game technique are very similar – to harm your competitor’s positions in hope to better your chances of winning, but the Back Game technique utilizes alternate tactics to do that. The Back Game technique is commonly utilized when you are far behind your competitor. To participate in Backgammon with this tactic, you need to hold 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This plan is more difficult than others to use in Backgammon seeing as it requires careful movement of your checkers and how the pieces are moved is partly the result of the dice toss.