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As we dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a game of talent and good luck. The goal is to shift your pieces carefully around the game board to your home board while at the same time your opposing player moves their checkers toward their home board in the opposite direction. With competing player pieces shifting in opposite directions there is going to be conflict and the requirement for particular tactics at particular times. Here are the 2 final Backgammon strategies to round out your game.

The Priming Game Plan

If the aim of the blocking strategy is to slow down the opponent to move their pieces, the Priming Game strategy is to absolutely stop any movement of the opponent by building a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s pieces will either get hit, or end up in a damaged position if he/she at all attempts to leave the wall. The ambush of the prime can be established anyplace between point 2 and point eleven in your game board. Once you have successfully built the prime to block the activity of your opponent, the opponent does not even get to roll the dice, and you move your chips and toss the dice again. You will win the game for sure.

The Back Game Tactic

The objectives of the Back Game plan and the Blocking Game strategy are similar – to hinder your opponent’s positions hoping to better your odds of winning, but the Back Game strategy uses seperate techniques to achieve that. The Back Game tactic is generally used when you are far behind your competitor. To participate in Backgammon with this technique, you have to control 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This plan is more complex than others to use in Backgammon because it needs careful movement of your checkers and how the pieces are relocated is partially the result of the dice roll.