As we have dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a casino game of ability and pure luck. The goal is to shift your pieces safely around the board to your inner board and at the same time your opposing player moves their pieces toward their inside board in the opposing direction. With competing player chips moving in opposite directions there is going to be conflict and the requirement for specific techniques at specific times. Here are the 2 final Backgammon strategies to round out your game.

The Priming Game Tactic

If the aim of the blocking tactic is to slow down the opponent to shift her checkers, the Priming Game tactic is to absolutely stop any movement of the opposing player by building a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s pieces will either get hit, or end up in a bad position if he/she at all tries to leave the wall. The ambush of the prime can be built anyplace between point two and point 11 in your game board. After you’ve successfully assembled the prime to block the activity of the opponent, your opponent does not even get to toss the dice, and you move your pieces and roll the dice yet again. You will be a winner for sure.

The Back Game Strategy

The goals of the Back Game strategy and the Blocking Game strategy are similar – to hinder your opponent’s positions with hope to boost your odds of winning, but the Back Game technique relies on alternate techniques to achieve that. The Back Game plan is often utilized when you are far behind your opponent. To play Backgammon with this plan, you need to hold 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This plan is more complex than others to play in Backgammon seeing as it requires careful movement of your checkers and how the pieces are relocated is partially the result of the dice toss.