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As we dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a game of skill and luck. The goal is to move your chips carefully around the board to your inside board while at the same time your opposing player moves their pieces toward their home board in the opposing direction. With opposing player pieces heading in opposite directions there is going to be conflict and the requirement for particular strategies at specific times. Here are the last two Backgammon strategies to finish off your game.

The Priming Game Plan

If the purpose of the blocking strategy is to hamper the opponents ability to shift his chips, the Priming Game strategy is to completely barricade any activity of the opponent by constructing a prime - ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor's pieces will either get bumped, or result a bad position if he at all attempts to escape the wall. The trap of the prime can be built anywhere between point 2 and point 11 in your board. As soon as you have successfully built the prime to prevent the activity of the opponent, the competitor doesn't even get a chance to roll the dice, that means you move your chips and toss the dice again. You will win the game for sure.

The Back Game Plan

The objectives of the Back Game plan and the Blocking Game strategy are very similar - to hurt your competitor's positions with hope to boost your odds of winning, but the Back Game plan relies on seperate tactics to achieve that. The Back Game tactic is often used when you are far behind your opponent. To participate in Backgammon with this strategy, you have to control two or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single piece) late in the game. This plan is more challenging than others to use in Backgammon because it needs careful movement of your chips and how the pieces are relocated is partly the result of the dice roll.