As we dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a casino game of skill and good luck. The goal is to shift your chips safely around the game board to your inside board and at the same time your opposition moves their chips toward their inner board in the opposing direction. With competing player pieces shifting in opposite directions there is bound to be conflict and the need for particular 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 hamper the opponents ability to shift her checkers, the Priming Game tactic is to completely block any activity of the opposing player by constructing a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s checkers will either get hit, or result a bad position if he/she ever tries to escape the wall. The trap of the prime can be built anywhere between point two and point 11 in your game board. As soon as you have successfully constructed the prime to stop the activity of the competitor, the opponent doesn’t even get a chance to toss the dice, and you shift your pieces and toss the dice again. You’ll win the game for sure.

The Back Game Strategy

The aims of the Back Game strategy and the Blocking Game plan are very similar – to hurt your opponent’s positions hoping to better your chances of winning, however the Back Game tactic utilizes different tactics to achieve that. The Back Game technique is generally utilized when you’re far behind your opponent. To compete in Backgammon with this strategy, you have to hold two or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single piece) late in the game. This technique is more complex than others to employ in Backgammon seeing as it needs careful movement of your chips and how the chips are moved is partly the outcome of the dice roll.