As we dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a game of ability and luck. The aim is to shift your pieces carefully around the game board to your inside board and at the same time your opponent shifts their pieces toward their inside board in the opposite direction. With competing player checkers shifting in opposite directions there is bound to be conflict and the requirement for particular techniques at particular times. Here are the two final Backgammon tactics to finish off your game.

The Priming Game Plan

If the purpose of the blocking tactic is to hamper the opponents ability to shift her chips, the Priming Game plan is to absolutely block any movement of the opposing player by assembling a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s checkers will either get bumped, or end up in a battered position if he ever attempts to leave the wall. The ambush of the prime can be built anywhere between point 2 and point eleven in your board. Once you’ve successfully assembled the prime to block the movement of the opponent, the competitor does not even get to roll the dice, that means you shift your checkers and roll the dice again. You will be a winner for sure.

The Back Game Plan

The goals of the Back Game tactic and the Blocking Game strategy are very similar – to harm your competitor’s positions in hope to improve your odds of winning, but the Back Game technique uses different tactics to achieve that. The Back Game strategy is commonly employed when you are far behind your competitor. To play Backgammon with this strategy, you need to hold two or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This tactic is more difficult than others to play in Backgammon seeing as it needs careful movement of your checkers and how the pieces are relocated is partially the result of the dice toss.