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As we have dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a game of ability and good luck. The goal is to move your pieces safely around the game board to your home board while at the same time your opposition shifts their chips toward their inside board in the opposing direction. With competing player chips heading in opposite directions there is going to be conflict and the requirement for specific techniques at particular instances. Here are the last two Backgammon plans to complete your game.

The Priming Game Plan

If the goal of the blocking strategy is to slow down the opponent to shift his pieces, the Priming Game plan is to completely barricade any activity of the opponent by constructing a prime - ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor's chips will either get bumped, or result a damaged position if he/she ever attempts to leave the wall. The trap of the prime can be setup anyplace between point two and point 11 in your board. As soon as you have successfully constructed the prime to prevent the activity of the competitor, the competitor does not even get to toss the dice, and you shift your chips and toss the dice again. You will win the game for sure.

The Back Game Tactic

The aims of the Back Game strategy and the Blocking Game plan are very similar - to harm your competitor's positions in hope to better your odds of winning, however the Back Game tactic relies on seperate techniques to achieve that. The Back Game tactic is commonly employed when you're far behind your opponent. To participate in Backgammon with this technique, you need to control 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single checker) late in the game. This technique is more difficult than others to use in Backgammon seeing as it needs careful movement of your checkers and how the chips are moved is partially the outcome of the dice toss.