As we have dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a game of talent and good luck. The goal is to shift your checkers carefully around the board to your inner board while at the same time your opposition shifts their chips toward their home board in the opposite direction. With competing player chips heading in opposite directions there is going to be conflict and the need for specific strategies at specific times. Here are the 2 final Backgammon plans to finish off your game.

The Priming Game Strategy

If the goal of the blocking plan is to slow down the opponent to shift his pieces, the Priming Game strategy is to absolutely block any movement of the opposing player by creating a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s pieces will either get hit, or end up in a battered position if he ever tries to leave the wall. The trap of the prime can be built anywhere between point two and point eleven in your board. After you’ve successfully assembled the prime to stop the activity of your opponent, your opponent does not even get a chance to roll the dice, that means you move your checkers and roll the dice again. You will win the game for sure.

The Back Game Technique

The goals of the Back Game strategy and the Blocking Game tactic are similar – to hurt your opponent’s positions hoping to improve your chances of winning, but the Back Game tactic relies on alternate tactics to achieve that. The Back Game strategy is frequently used when you are far behind your competitor. To participate in Backgammon with this technique, you have to hold 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single checker) late in the game. This technique is more complex than others to use in Backgammon because it requires careful movement of your pieces and how the checkers are relocated is partly the outcome of the dice roll.