As we dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a casino game of skill and good luck. The aim is to move your chips carefully around the game board to your inner board while at the same time your opponent shifts their checkers toward their inner board in the opposite direction. With competing player checkers shifting in opposite directions there is going to be conflict and the need for specific tactics at particular instances. Here are the two final Backgammon tactics to finish off your game.

The Priming Game Tactic

If the purpose of the blocking strategy is to hamper the opponents ability to shift her checkers, the Priming Game plan is to absolutely barricade any activity of the opponent by building a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s checkers will either get hit, or result a damaged position if she ever tries to escape the wall. The trap of the prime can be established anyplace between point 2 and point 11 in your game board. After you’ve successfully constructed the prime to block the activity of the competitor, your competitor does not even get to toss the dice, that means you shift your checkers and toss the dice again. You will win the game for sure.

The Back Game Strategy

The goals of the Back Game technique and the Blocking Game plan are very similar – to harm your opponent’s positions in hope to improve your chances of succeeding, however the Back Game plan utilizes seperate techniques to achieve that. The Back Game plan is often utilized when you are far behind your competitor. To participate in Backgammon with this strategy, you have to hold two or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single piece) late in the game. This technique is more difficult than others to use in Backgammon seeing as it needs careful movement of your pieces and how the pieces are moved is partly the outcome of the dice toss.