As we dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a casino game of ability and luck. The aim is to shift your pieces safely around the board to your home board while at the same time your opponent shifts their pieces toward their inside board in the opposite direction. With competing player pieces moving in opposing directions there is bound to be conflict and the requirement for specific techniques at particular times. Here are the last 2 Backgammon plans to round out your game.

The Priming Game Tactic

If the aim of the blocking strategy is to hamper the opponents ability to shift their checkers, the Priming Game tactic is to completely stop any activity of the opposing player by constructing a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s pieces will either get hit, or result a bad position if she at all tries to escape the wall. The trap of the prime can be established anyplace between point 2 and point 11 in your board. As soon as you have successfully built the prime to prevent the activity of the opponent, the opponent does not even get to roll the dice, that means you shift your checkers and toss the dice yet again. You will win the game for sure.

The Back Game Technique

The goals of the Back Game technique and the Blocking Game tactic are very similar – to hurt your opponent’s positions with hope to boost your chances of winning, but the Back Game technique utilizes alternate tactics to do that. The Back Game tactic is often utilized when you are far behind your opponent. To participate in Backgammon with this tactic, you have to hold 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single piece) late in the game. This strategy is more difficult than others to employ in Backgammon because it requires careful movement of your pieces and how the chips are relocated is partly the result of the dice toss.