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As we have dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a game of talent and luck. The goal is to move your pieces safely around the board to your inner board while at the same time your opposition shifts their pieces toward their inner board in the opposite direction. With competing player checkers heading in opposing directions there is going to be conflict and the need for specific tactics at specific times. Here are the two final Backgammon plans to complete your game.

The Priming Game Strategy

If the purpose of the blocking tactic is to slow down the opponent to move her checkers, the Priming Game plan is to absolutely stop any activity of the opposing player by constructing a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s checkers will either get hit, or result a battered position if she ever attempts to leave the wall. The ambush of the prime can be setup anyplace between point 2 and point eleven in your board. As soon as you’ve successfully constructed the prime to prevent the activity of your competitor, the competitor doesn’t even get a chance to roll the dice, that means you move your pieces and roll the dice again. You’ll win the game for sure.

The Back Game Plan

The goals of the Back Game tactic and the Blocking Game technique are very similar – to hinder your opponent’s positions with hope to better your odds of winning, but the Back Game technique relies on different techniques to do that. The Back Game tactic is frequently utilized when you are far behind your opponent. To play Backgammon with this technique, you need to hold two or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single checker) late in the game. This strategy is more complex than others to use in Backgammon seeing as it requires careful movement of your pieces and how the pieces are moved is partly the result of the dice toss.