As we dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a casino game of talent and luck. The goal is to shift your pieces carefully around the game board to your inside board and at the same time your opposing player moves their chips toward their inner board in the opposite direction. With opposing player pieces heading in opposing directions there is bound to be conflict and the need for particular strategies at particular times. Here are the two final Backgammon tactics to complete your game.

The Priming Game Plan

If the purpose of the blocking tactic is to slow down the opponent to shift his checkers, the Priming Game strategy is to completely block any movement of the opposing player by constructing a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s pieces will either get hit, or result a bad position if he/she ever attempts to escape the wall. The ambush of the prime can be setup anywhere between point two and point 11 in your half of the board. After you have successfully built the prime to stop the movement of your competitor, the competitor does not even get a chance to roll the dice, that means you shift your checkers and toss the dice again. You’ll be a winner for sure.

The Back Game Tactic

The objectives of the Back Game strategy and the Blocking Game strategy are very similar – to hinder your opponent’s positions hoping to better your odds of succeeding, but the Back Game technique uses alternate tactics to do that. The Back Game plan is generally employed when you are far behind your competitor. To participate in Backgammon with this plan, you need to hold 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This tactic is more complex than others to play in Backgammon because it requires careful movement of your checkers and how the chips are moved is partially the outcome of the dice toss.