As we have dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a casino game of ability and pure luck. The aim is to move your checkers safely around the board to your home board while at the same time your opponent shifts their pieces toward their inner board in the opposite direction. With opposing player checkers heading in opposing directions there is bound to be conflict and the requirement for particular strategies at specific instances. Here are the two final Backgammon strategies to complete your game.

The Priming Game Plan

If the goal of the blocking strategy is to slow down the opponent to move her checkers, the Priming Game plan is to absolutely block any activity of the opponent by constructing a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s pieces will either get bumped, or result a bad position if he ever attempts to leave the wall. The ambush of the prime can be established anyplace between point two and point 11 in your board. After you have successfully built the prime to block the activity of the opponent, the competitor doesn’t even get a chance to roll the dice, that means you move your checkers and toss the dice yet again. You will win the game for sure.

The Back Game Plan

The goals of the Back Game technique and the Blocking Game technique are very similar – to hurt your opponent’s positions with hope to improve your odds of succeeding, however the Back Game tactic utilizes alternate techniques to achieve that. The Back Game strategy is often used when you’re far behind your competitor. To participate in Backgammon with this technique, you need to control two or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single piece) late in the game. This technique is more challenging than others to play in Backgammon because it requires careful movement of your checkers and how the pieces are relocated is partly the result of the dice toss.