As we have dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a game of skill and pure luck. The aim is to shift your chips safely around the game board to your inside board while at the same time your opposition shifts their chips toward their home board in the opposite direction. With competing player pieces moving in opposite directions there is bound to be conflict and the requirement for particular strategies at specific instances. Here are the 2 final Backgammon strategies to complete your game.

The Priming Game Strategy

If the purpose of the blocking plan is to hamper the opponents ability to shift their checkers, the Priming Game plan is to completely barricade any activity of the opposing player by building a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s chips will either get hit, or end up in a bad position if he at all attempts to escape the wall. The trap of the prime can be established anywhere between point 2 and point 11 in your board. Once you have successfully assembled the prime to prevent the movement of the competitor, the competitor does not even get a chance to toss the dice, and you shift your pieces and toss the dice again. You will win the game for sure.

The Back Game Strategy

The goals of the Back Game strategy and the Blocking Game plan are similar – to hurt your competitor’s positions hoping to boost your chances of succeeding, but the Back Game technique relies on different tactics to do that. The Back Game plan is often used when you are far behind your competitor. To participate in Backgammon with this technique, you need to hold two or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This technique is more challenging than others to use in Backgammon seeing as it needs careful movement of your checkers and how the checkers are relocated is partially the outcome of the dice roll.