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As we dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a game of talent and pure luck. The goal is to shift your checkers safely around the board to your inner board and at the same time your opponent shifts their pieces toward their inside board in the opposite direction. With opposing player chips heading in opposite directions there is bound to be conflict and the need for specific strategies at particular instances. Here are the last 2 Backgammon tactics to finish off your game.

The Priming Game Plan

If the goal of the blocking plan is to slow down the opponent to move his pieces, the Priming Game plan is to absolutely stop any movement of the opponent by constructing a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s pieces will either get hit, or result a battered position if he/she ever attempts to leave the wall. The trap of the prime can be established anyplace between point two and point eleven in your game board. As soon as you have successfully constructed the prime to prevent the movement of the opponent, your competitor doesn’t even get to roll the dice, and you shift your pieces and roll the dice yet again. You will win the game for sure.

The Back Game Strategy

The aims of the Back Game technique and the Blocking Game tactic are similar – to hurt your competitor’s positions in hope to improve your chances of winning, but the Back Game technique utilizes different tactics to do that. The Back Game plan is commonly utilized when you’re far behind your opponent. To compete in Backgammon with this technique, you have to control 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single piece) late in the game. This plan is more challenging than others to use in Backgammon seeing as it requires careful movement of your pieces and how the chips are moved is partially the outcome of the dice toss.