The Essential Details of Backgammon Strategies – Part Two
As we dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a casino game of ability and good luck. The aim is to shift your checkers carefully around the board to your inside board while at the same time your opposition shifts their pieces toward their inner board in the opposite direction. With competing player checkers shifting in opposing directions there is going to be conflict and the need for particular strategies at specific times. Here are the 2 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 their pieces, the Priming Game tactic is to completely block any movement of the opponent by constructing a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s checkers will either get bumped, or end up in a bad position if she at all attempts to escape the wall. The ambush of the prime can be established anyplace between point 2 and point eleven in your half of the board. As soon as you’ve successfully constructed the prime to stop the movement of your opponent, your competitor does not even get a chance to roll the dice, and you shift your checkers and roll the dice again. You will be a winner for sure.
The Back Game Plan
The goals of the Back Game strategy and the Blocking Game strategy are very similar – to harm your opponent’s positions hoping to better your chances of succeeding, but the Back Game plan relies on alternate tactics to achieve that. The Back Game strategy is generally employed when you’re far behind your opponent. To play Backgammon with this technique, you have to control two or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This plan is more complex than others to employ in Backgammon because it needs careful movement of your pieces and how the checkers are relocated is partly the result of the dice toss.

