As we have dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a casino game of talent and pure luck. The aim is to shift your checkers safely around the game board to your inside board while at the same time your opponent moves their pieces toward their inside board in the opposite direction. With opposing player pieces shifting in opposite directions there is going to be conflict and the requirement for specific strategies at specific times. Here are the 2 final Backgammon strategies to complete your game.

The Priming Game Strategy

If the goal of the blocking tactic is to hamper the opponents ability to shift his checkers, the Priming Game strategy is to absolutely block any activity of the opponent by building a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s chips will either get hit, or result a battered position if he/she at all attempts to escape the wall. The ambush of the prime can be setup anywhere between point two and point eleven in your game board. After you have successfully constructed the prime to block the movement of your competitor, your competitor doesn’t even get a chance to toss the dice, that means you shift your pieces and roll the dice again. You’ll be a winner for sure.

The Back Game Plan

The goals of the Back Game plan and the Blocking Game strategy are very similar – to hurt your opponent’s positions with hope to boost your chances of winning, however the Back Game tactic uses seperate techniques to do that. The Back Game tactic is commonly employed when you’re far behind your competitor. To play Backgammon with this strategy, you need to hold 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This plan is more challenging than others to play in Backgammon because it needs careful movement of your chips and how the checkers are relocated is partly the result of the dice roll.