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As we have dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a game of talent and luck. The goal is to shift your chips carefully around the board to your home board and at the same time your opposing player moves their pieces toward their inside board in the opposing direction. With competing player checkers moving in opposing directions there is going to be conflict and the need for particular techniques at particular times. Here are the two final Backgammon plans to complete your game.

The Priming Game Tactic

If the goal of the blocking strategy is to slow down the opponent to shift her checkers, the Priming Game tactic is to completely barricade any activity of the opponent by building a prime - ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent's checkers will either get hit, or result a bad position if he at all attempts to escape the wall. The ambush of the prime can be setup anywhere between point 2 and point eleven in your game board. After you've successfully assembled the prime to block the activity of your competitor, the opponent does not even get a chance to roll the dice, that means you shift your pieces and roll the dice yet again. You will win the game for sure.

The Back Game Plan

The objectives of the Back Game technique and the Blocking Game plan are very similar - to hinder your competitor's positions with hope to improve your odds of winning, but the Back Game strategy uses seperate tactics to achieve that. The Back Game plan is commonly used when you're far behind your opponent. To play Backgammon with this tactic, you have to control 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single checker) late in the game. This plan is more difficult than others to play in Backgammon seeing as it needs careful movement of your checkers and how the checkers are moved is partially the outcome of the dice toss.