As we dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a game of skill and luck. The goal is to move your pieces carefully around the board to your inside board and at the same time your opponent shifts their checkers toward their inner board in the opposing direction. With opposing player checkers shifting in opposing directions there is going to be conflict and the requirement for specific strategies at particular instances. Here are the 2 final Backgammon tactics to round out your game.

The Priming Game Plan

If the aim of the blocking plan is to hamper the opponents ability to shift her chips, the Priming Game strategy is to completely stop any movement of the opposing player by constructing a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s pieces will either get bumped, or result a battered position if she at all attempts to escape the wall. The ambush of the prime can be established anyplace between point two and point eleven in your board. As soon as you have successfully built the prime to prevent the movement of the opponent, the competitor does not even get to toss the dice, and you move your checkers and roll the dice yet again. You will be a winner for sure.

The Back Game Technique

The aims of the Back Game technique and the Blocking Game technique are very similar – to harm your competitor’s positions hoping to boost your chances of succeeding, but the Back Game tactic utilizes different tactics to achieve that. The Back Game technique is commonly used when you’re far behind your competitor. To compete in Backgammon with this strategy, you need to control two or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This technique is more challenging than others to play in Backgammon because it needs careful movement of your checkers and how the pieces are relocated is partly the outcome of the dice toss.