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As we have dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a game of skill and luck. The goal is to move your chips carefully around the game board to your home board while at the same time your opposing player moves their chips toward their home board in the opposing direction. With competing player chips shifting in opposing directions there is going to be conflict and the requirement for particular techniques at particular instances. Here are the two final Backgammon plans to round out your game.

The Priming Game Plan

If the goal of the blocking plan is to hamper the opponents ability to move her checkers, the Priming Game tactic is to completely barricade any activity of the opposing player by creating a prime - ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor's checkers will either get bumped, or result a battered position if he at all attempts to leave the wall. The ambush of the prime can be setup anywhere between point 2 and point eleven in your game board. Once you have successfully assembled the prime to stop the activity of your opponent, your opponent doesn't even get to roll the dice, that means you move your checkers and roll the dice yet again. You will be a winner for sure.

The Back Game Strategy

The goals of the Back Game plan and the Blocking Game strategy are very similar - to hinder your opponent's positions in hope to better your odds of succeeding, but the Back Game technique relies on different techniques to do that. The Back Game technique is frequently employed when you are far behind your opponent. To play Backgammon with this technique, you need to hold two or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single checker) late in the game. This strategy is more difficult than others to use in Backgammon seeing as it requires careful movement of your checkers and how the checkers are moved is partially the outcome of the dice roll.