As we have dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a game of talent and good luck. The aim is to shift your checkers safely around the board to your inside board while at the same time your opponent shifts their checkers toward their home board in the opposing direction. With competing player pieces shifting in opposite directions there is bound to be conflict and the requirement for specific strategies at specific instances. Here are the two final Backgammon strategies to finish off your game.

The Priming Game Tactic

If the purpose of the blocking plan is to slow down the opponent to move their chips, the Priming Game tactic is to absolutely barricade any activity of the opponent by assembling a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s pieces will either get hit, or result a battered position if he/she ever tries to leave the wall. The trap of the prime can be setup anywhere between point 2 and point 11 in your half of the board. Once you have successfully assembled the prime to block the movement of your opponent, your competitor does not even get to toss the dice, that means you move your checkers and toss the dice yet again. You will be a winner for sure.

The Back Game Technique

The aims of the Back Game technique and the Blocking Game technique are very similar – to hurt your competitor’s positions in hope to boost your chances of winning, but the Back Game strategy uses alternate tactics to achieve that. The Back Game strategy is commonly used when you are far behind your opponent. To play Backgammon with this strategy, you need to hold 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This plan is more challenging than others to play in Backgammon seeing as it requires careful movement of your pieces and how the pieces are moved is partly the result of the dice roll.