As we dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a game of ability and good luck. The aim is to move your pieces safely around the board to your home board while at the same time your opposing player shifts their pieces toward their home board in the opposite direction. With competing player checkers moving in opposing directions there is bound to be conflict and the need for specific techniques at particular instances. Here are the last 2 Backgammon plans to complete your game.

The Priming Game Plan

If the goal of the blocking strategy is to slow down the opponent to shift their pieces, the Priming Game plan is to absolutely barricade any movement of the opponent by constructing a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s checkers will either get hit, or result a damaged position if he ever tries to leave the wall. The trap of the prime can be setup anywhere between point two and point eleven in your half of the board. After you have successfully built the prime to block the activity of your competitor, the opponent does not even get to roll the dice, that means you move your pieces and toss the dice yet again. You’ll win the game for sure.

The Back Game Technique

The goals of the Back Game tactic and the Blocking Game strategy are similar – to harm your competitor’s positions in hope to better your chances of succeeding, but the Back Game technique utilizes seperate techniques to do that. The Back Game strategy is generally used when you are far behind your opponent. To participate in Backgammon with this plan, 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 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.