As we have dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a casino game of talent and pure luck. The aim is to shift your checkers carefully around the game board to your home board and at the same time your opposition shifts their chips toward their inner board in the opposing direction. With opposing player chips moving in opposite directions there is bound to be conflict and the requirement for particular tactics at specific times. Here are the last 2 Backgammon strategies to round out your game.

The Priming Game Strategy

If the aim of the blocking strategy is to slow down the opponent to move his checkers, the Priming Game tactic is to absolutely block any movement of the opposing player by assembling a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s pieces will either get bumped, or result a damaged position if he/she at all tries to escape the wall. The trap of the prime can be built anyplace between point two and point 11 in your board. As soon as you’ve successfully constructed the prime to prevent the movement of your competitor, your opponent does not even get a chance to roll the dice, and you move your pieces and roll the dice again. You will be a winner for sure.

The Back Game Strategy

The objectives of the Back Game strategy and the Blocking Game strategy are similar – to hinder your competitor’s positions hoping to improve your chances of winning, but the Back Game plan uses alternate techniques to do that. The Back Game plan is often employed when you are far behind your opponent. To play Backgammon with this plan, you need to control two or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single checker) late in the game. This tactic is more difficult than others to use in Backgammon because it needs careful movement of your chips and how the checkers are moved is partially the result of the dice toss.