As we dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a game of talent and luck. The goal is to move your checkers safely around the game board to your home board while at the same time your opposing player moves their chips toward their home board in the opposite direction. With competing player pieces shifting in opposite directions there is bound to be conflict and the need for specific tactics at particular times. Here are the last 2 Backgammon strategies to round out your game.

The Priming Game Tactic

If the aim of the blocking tactic is to slow down the opponent to shift his pieces, the Priming Game tactic is to absolutely stop any movement of the opposing player by building a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s chips will either get hit, or result a battered position if he ever tries to escape the wall. The trap of the prime can be setup anywhere between point 2 and point 11 in your game board. Once you’ve successfully assembled the prime to stop the activity of your opponent, your competitor does not even get a chance to toss the dice, that means you move your chips and toss the dice yet again. You’ll be a winner for sure.

The Back Game Plan

The goals of the Back Game strategy and the Blocking Game tactic are very similar – to harm your opponent’s positions in hope to improve your odds of winning, but the Back Game strategy uses seperate techniques to achieve that. The Back Game strategy is often utilized when you’re 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 late in the game. This strategy is more challenging than others to employ in Backgammon seeing as it needs careful movement of your pieces and how the chips are relocated is partly the result of the dice toss.