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As we dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a game of skill and good luck. The goal is to shift your chips safely around the board to your home board and at the same time your opposing player moves their chips toward their inner board in the opposite direction. With competing player pieces shifting in opposing directions there is bound to be conflict and the need for particular techniques at particular times. Here are the 2 final Backgammon techniques to finish off your game.

The Priming Game Strategy

If the goal of the blocking plan is to hamper the opponents ability to move her pieces, the Priming Game plan is to completely barricade any activity of the opponent by assembling a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s pieces will either get bumped, or end up in a battered position if she at all attempts to escape the wall. The ambush of the prime can be built anywhere between point two and point 11 in your board. Once you’ve successfully constructed the prime to prevent the activity of the opponent, your opponent does not even get a chance to toss the dice, and you shift your checkers and roll the dice again. You’ll win the game for sure.

The Back Game Tactic

The objectives of the Back Game tactic and the Blocking Game strategy are similar – to hurt your competitor’s positions hoping to improve your chances of winning, but the Back Game tactic uses seperate tactics to achieve that. The Back Game plan is generally utilized when you are far behind your competitor. To play Backgammon with this technique, you have to control two 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 use in Backgammon seeing as it requires careful movement of your checkers and how the checkers are moved is partially the result of the dice toss.