As we dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a casino game of talent and good luck. The aim is to shift your pieces carefully around the game board to your inner board and at the same time your opposing player shifts their chips toward their inner board in the opposite direction. With competing player chips moving in opposite directions there is going to be conflict and the need for specific tactics at particular instances. Here are the last two Backgammon plans to complete your game.

The Priming Game Strategy

If the goal of the blocking strategy is to hamper the opponents ability to move his pieces, the Priming Game tactic is to completely block any movement of the opponent by building a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s pieces 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 setup anyplace between point 2 and point 11 in your half of the board. As soon as you have successfully built the prime to block the movement of your competitor, your opponent doesn’t even get a chance to roll the dice, and you shift your chips and roll the dice yet again. You’ll be a winner for sure.

The Back Game Plan

The objectives of the Back Game tactic and the Blocking Game technique are very similar – to hurt your opponent’s positions with hope to improve your odds of succeeding, but the Back Game plan uses different techniques to do that. The Back Game plan is commonly utilized when you’re far behind your competitor. To compete in Backgammon with this technique, you have to hold 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 needs careful movement of your pieces and how the chips are relocated is partly the outcome of the dice roll.