As we dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a game of skill and pure luck. The aim is to move your pieces safely around the game board to your inside board and at the same time your opposition shifts their pieces toward their inner board in the opposing direction. With opposing player chips heading in opposite directions there is bound to be conflict and the need for particular strategies at particular instances. Here are the last 2 Backgammon plans to complete your game.

The Priming Game Tactic

If the goal of the blocking strategy is to hamper the opponents ability to shift her checkers, the Priming Game plan is to absolutely block any activity of the opposing player by creating a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s chips will either get hit, or end up in a damaged position if he at all tries to leave the wall. The ambush of the prime can be built anyplace between point two and point 11 in your board. After you’ve successfully assembled the prime to block the movement of your competitor, the opponent does not even get to toss the dice, and you move your pieces and toss the dice again. You will be a winner for sure.

The Back Game Tactic

The goals of the Back Game tactic and the Blocking Game strategy are similar – to hurt your competitor’s positions with hope to improve your odds of winning, but the Back Game tactic utilizes different techniques to achieve that. The Back Game plan is frequently used when you are far behind your competitor. To participate in Backgammon with this tactic, you need to control two or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This technique is more challenging than others to use in Backgammon seeing as it needs careful movement of your chips and how the chips are moved is partially the result of the dice roll.