As we dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a casino game of skill and pure luck. The goal is to shift your chips carefully around the game board to your inside board and at the same time your opponent shifts their chips toward their inside board in the opposing direction. With competing player chips shifting in opposing directions there is bound to be conflict and the requirement for specific techniques at particular times. Here are the two final Backgammon tactics to complete your game.

The Priming Game Strategy

If the aim of the blocking strategy is to slow down the opponent to shift his pieces, the Priming Game plan is to absolutely stop any activity of the opposing player by building a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s chips will either get hit, or end up in a damaged position if he ever tries to escape the wall. The ambush of the prime can be established anywhere between point 2 and point eleven in your game board. After you have successfully constructed the prime to block the activity of your competitor, the opponent does not even get a chance to toss the dice, and you shift your chips and roll the dice again. You’ll win the game for sure.

The Back Game Technique

The aims of the Back Game strategy and the Blocking Game tactic are similar – to hinder your competitor’s positions hoping to boost your chances of winning, but the Back Game strategy relies on different tactics to do that. The Back Game plan is frequently used when you’re far behind your opponent. To compete in Backgammon with this plan, you need 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 play in Backgammon because it needs careful movement of your pieces and how the checkers are relocated is partly the result of the dice roll.