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As we have dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a game of skill and good luck. The aim is to shift your pieces carefully around the game board to your inner board while at the same time your opposition shifts their pieces toward their inner board in the opposing direction. With opposing player checkers moving in opposite directions there is going to be conflict and the requirement for specific tactics at particular times. Here are the last two Backgammon plans to round out your game.

The Priming Game Strategy

If the purpose of the blocking plan is to slow down the opponent to shift their chips, the Priming Game strategy is to absolutely barricade any movement of the opposing player by creating a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s chips will either get hit, or end up in a bad position if he ever tries to escape the wall. The trap 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 assembled the prime to block the movement of your competitor, your competitor does not even get to toss the dice, and you shift your chips and toss the dice again. You will win the game for sure.

The Back Game Tactic

The goals of the Back Game plan and the Blocking Game technique are similar – to hurt your opponent’s positions in hope to improve your odds of succeeding, however the Back Game strategy uses alternate tactics to achieve that. The Back Game technique is frequently used when you are far behind your competitor. To compete 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 tactic is more complex than others to play in Backgammon because it needs careful movement of your pieces and how the chips are moved is partially the result of the dice roll.