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As we dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a casino game of skill and pure luck. The aim is to shift your checkers safely around the board to your home board while at the same time your opponent moves their checkers toward their inside board in the opposite direction. With competing player chips shifting in opposite directions there is going to be conflict and the requirement for particular techniques at particular instances. Here are the 2 final Backgammon strategies to round out your game.

The Priming Game Strategy

If the goal of the blocking tactic is to slow down the opponent to move his pieces, the Priming Game plan is to absolutely barricade any activity of the opposing player by building a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s checkers will either get hit, or result a damaged position if he ever tries to escape the wall. The ambush of the prime can be built anywhere between point 2 and point eleven in your half of the board. After you have successfully assembled the prime to stop the movement of the competitor, your competitor doesn’t even get to toss the dice, and you move your chips and roll the dice again. You’ll be a winner for sure.

The Back Game Plan

The objectives of the Back Game strategy and the Blocking Game plan are very similar – to harm your opponent’s positions with hope to better your odds of winning, but the Back Game strategy relies on different tactics to do that. The Back Game technique is often utilized when you’re far behind your opponent. To participate in Backgammon with this tactic, you have to hold 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single checker) late in the game. This plan is more complex than others to use in Backgammon because it requires careful movement of your chips and how the checkers are relocated is partially the result of the dice toss.