As we have dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a casino game of talent and luck. The goal is to shift your pieces safely around the game board to your inner board while at the same time your opponent shifts their chips toward their inner board in the opposing direction. With competing player checkers heading in opposing directions there is bound to be conflict and the need for specific tactics at specific instances. Here are the two final Backgammon techniques to complete your game.

The Priming Game Plan

If the goal of the blocking strategy is to hamper the opponents ability to move their pieces, the Priming Game strategy is to absolutely barricade any activity of the opponent by assembling a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s chips will either get hit, or end up in a battered position if he/she at all tries to leave the wall. The ambush of the prime can be established anyplace between point 2 and point eleven in your game board. As soon as you have successfully assembled the prime to prevent the activity of your opponent, your opponent doesn’t even get a chance to roll the dice, and you move your pieces and roll the dice again. You’ll be a winner for sure.

The Back Game Plan

The goals of the Back Game strategy and the Blocking Game technique are similar – to harm your opponent’s positions with hope to boost your odds of succeeding, but the Back Game plan relies on different techniques to do that. The Back Game strategy is commonly utilized when you are far behind your opponent. To compete in Backgammon with this tactic, you need to control 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single checker) 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 checkers are moved is partly the result of the dice toss.