As we have dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a game of skill and pure luck. The aim is to move your chips safely around the board to your inside board while at the same time your opposition moves their chips toward their inside board in the opposing direction. With opposing player pieces heading in opposing directions there is bound to be conflict and the need for specific techniques at specific times. Here are the last 2 Backgammon tactics to complete your game.

The Priming Game Tactic

If the goal of the blocking plan is to slow down the opponent to shift their chips, the Priming Game plan is to absolutely barricade any movement of the opponent by creating a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s checkers will either get hit, or result a damaged position if he/she at all tries to escape the wall. The ambush of the prime can be built anyplace between point 2 and point eleven in your half of the board. As soon as you have successfully assembled the prime to stop the activity of your opponent, your competitor doesn’t even get to toss the dice, that means you shift your checkers and roll the dice yet again. You will win the game for sure.

The Back Game Tactic

The objectives of the Back Game strategy and the Blocking Game technique are similar – to hurt your competitor’s positions hoping to improve your odds of winning, but the Back Game strategy utilizes alternate techniques to do that. The Back Game technique is generally employed when you’re far behind your competitor. To play Backgammon with this tactic, you need to control 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single piece) late in the game. This strategy is more difficult than others to employ in Backgammon because it requires careful movement of your pieces and how the pieces are relocated is partially the outcome of the dice roll.