As we have dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a casino game of talent and good luck. The aim is to shift your chips carefully around the game board to your inside board while at the same time your opposing player shifts their checkers toward their home board in the opposing direction. With opposing player checkers heading in opposing directions there is going to be conflict and the need for particular techniques at particular instances. Here are the two final Backgammon techniques to round out your game.

The Priming Game Plan

If the purpose of the blocking strategy is to slow down the opponent to shift his chips, the Priming Game tactic is to absolutely barricade any activity of the opponent by assembling a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s chips will either get hit, or end up in a battered position if he at all tries to leave the wall. The ambush of the prime can be setup anyplace between point 2 and point eleven in your half of the board. Once you’ve successfully built the prime to stop the activity of the competitor, your opponent does not even get to toss the dice, and you shift your checkers and roll the dice again. You will be a winner for sure.

The Back Game Tactic

The aims of the Back Game plan and the Blocking Game strategy are similar – to harm your opponent’s positions with hope to better your chances of winning, but the Back Game technique utilizes seperate tactics to achieve that. The Back Game technique is often employed when you’re far behind your opponent. To play Backgammon with this tactic, you have to control two or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single checker) late in the game. This tactic is more difficult than others to play in Backgammon because it requires careful movement of your chips and how the checkers are relocated is partially the outcome of the dice roll.