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As we have dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a casino game of talent and luck. The goal is to shift your pieces carefully around the board to your inner board while at the same time your opposition shifts their checkers toward their inner board in the opposite direction. With competing player chips heading in opposite directions there is bound to be conflict and the need for specific techniques at specific instances. Here are the last 2 Backgammon plans to round out your game.

The Priming Game Plan

If the purpose of the blocking strategy is to slow down the opponent to shift his chips, the Priming Game tactic is to completely block any activity of the opponent by constructing a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s chips will either get hit, or end up in a battered position if she ever tries to escape the wall. The trap of the prime can be built anywhere between point 2 and point 11 in your board. Once you’ve successfully assembled the prime to stop the activity of your competitor, your opponent doesn’t even get a chance to toss the dice, that means you move your chips and roll the dice yet again. You will be a winner for sure.

The Back Game Strategy

The goals of the Back Game technique and the Blocking Game tactic are similar – to harm your competitor’s positions with hope to better your odds of winning, but the Back Game technique uses different techniques to achieve that. The Back Game technique is frequently employed when you are far behind your competitor. To play Backgammon with this technique, 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 play in Backgammon because it requires careful movement of your pieces and how the checkers are moved is partly the outcome of the dice roll.