As we have dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a casino game of ability and pure luck. The aim is to shift your pieces carefully around the game board to your home board while at the same time your opposition shifts their chips toward their inside board in the opposite direction. With opposing player pieces shifting in opposing directions there is going to be conflict and the need for specific techniques at particular instances. Here are the 2 final Backgammon strategies to finish off your game.

The Priming Game Plan

If the aim of the blocking plan is to hamper the opponents ability to shift her pieces, the Priming Game tactic is to absolutely block any activity of the opponent by creating a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s pieces will either get hit, or end up in a bad position if he/she ever attempts to escape the wall. The trap of the prime can be built anyplace between point 2 and point 11 in your board. Once you have successfully assembled the prime to prevent the movement of your opponent, the opponent does not even get a chance to roll the dice, that means you shift your chips and roll the dice again. You will be a winner for sure.

The Back Game Technique

The goals of the Back Game strategy and the Blocking Game technique are very similar – to hurt your opponent’s positions in hope to better your chances of succeeding, but the Back Game strategy relies on seperate tactics to do that. The Back Game tactic is generally utilized when you’re far behind your opponent. To play Backgammon with this tactic, you need to control two or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single checker) late in the game. This strategy is more difficult than others to use in Backgammon because it needs careful movement of your pieces and how the chips are relocated is partially the outcome of the dice roll.