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As we dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a game of talent and pure luck. The aim is to shift your checkers carefully around the board to your inside board and at the same time your opponent moves their pieces toward their home board in the opposite direction. With competing player pieces heading in opposing directions there is going to be conflict and the need for particular tactics at specific times. Here are the 2 final Backgammon strategies to finish off your game.

The Priming Game Strategy

If the goal of the blocking plan is to slow down the opponent to shift his pieces, the Priming Game plan is to absolutely stop any movement of the opposing player by constructing a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s checkers will either get bumped, or result a damaged position if she ever attempts to leave the wall. The ambush of the prime can be built anywhere between point two and point eleven in your board. Once you have successfully built the prime to block the movement of the competitor, your opponent does not even get a chance to toss the dice, and you move your checkers and toss the dice again. You will win the game for sure.

The Back Game Tactic

The objectives of the Back Game tactic and the Blocking Game plan are very similar – to hinder your opponent’s positions hoping to boost your odds of succeeding, but the Back Game strategy relies on alternate techniques to achieve that. The Back Game plan is often utilized 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 seeing as it needs careful movement of your chips and how the pieces are moved is partly the outcome of the dice roll.