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As we dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a game of talent and good luck. The goal is to move your chips safely around the board to your inner board and at the same time your opponent shifts their pieces toward their home board in the opposing direction. With opposing player pieces heading in opposite directions there is bound to be conflict and the requirement for particular techniques at specific instances. Here are the two final Backgammon plans to round out your game.

The Priming Game Tactic

If the purpose of the blocking strategy is to slow down the opponent to shift her pieces, the Priming Game plan is to completely stop any movement of the opponent 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/she at all tries to escape the wall. The trap of the prime can be built anyplace between point 2 and point 11 in your game board. Once you’ve successfully assembled the prime to stop the activity of your opponent, your competitor does not even get a chance to toss the dice, and you move your checkers and toss the dice yet again. You will win the game for sure.

The Back Game Tactic

The goals of the Back Game technique and the Blocking Game plan are very similar – to hinder your competitor’s positions with hope to better your chances of succeeding, however the Back Game plan utilizes alternate techniques to achieve that. The Back Game strategy is commonly employed when you’re far behind your opponent. To participate in Backgammon with this strategy, you need to control two or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This tactic is more challenging than others to employ in Backgammon seeing as it needs careful movement of your pieces and how the pieces are relocated is partly the result of the dice toss.