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As we dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a casino game of talent and good luck. The aim is to move your checkers safely around the game board to your inside board and at the same time your opponent shifts their checkers toward their home board in the opposing direction. With competing player pieces heading in opposite directions there is going to be conflict and the requirement for particular tactics at particular instances. Here are the last two Backgammon strategies to round out your game.

The Priming Game Strategy

If the purpose of the blocking strategy is to hamper the opponents ability to shift their pieces, the Priming Game plan is to completely stop any movement of the opponent by building a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s chips will either get hit, or end up in a damaged position if he at all attempts to leave the wall. The ambush of the prime can be setup anywhere between point two and point eleven in your board. Once you have successfully constructed the prime to stop the movement of the competitor, your competitor does not even get a chance to roll the dice, and you move your pieces and roll the dice yet again. You will be a winner for sure.

The Back Game Strategy

The objectives of the Back Game strategy and the Blocking Game technique are very similar – to harm your opponent’s positions hoping to improve your odds of succeeding, but the Back Game technique relies on seperate techniques to do that. The Back Game strategy is commonly employed when you are far behind your competitor. To compete in Backgammon with this tactic, you need to control 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This strategy is more complex than others to use in Backgammon because it requires careful movement of your pieces and how the pieces are relocated is partially the outcome of the dice roll.