As we dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a game of talent and pure luck. The goal is to move your chips safely around the game board to your home board while at the same time your opponent shifts their chips toward their home board in the opposing direction. With opposing player chips moving in opposite directions there is bound to be conflict and the need for particular techniques at specific times. Here are the 2 final Backgammon techniques to finish off your game.

The Priming Game Strategy

If the aim of the blocking plan is to slow down the opponent to shift her pieces, the Priming Game plan is to completely barricade any movement of the opponent by assembling a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s pieces will either get hit, or end up in a battered position if she ever attempts to escape the wall. The ambush of the prime can be setup anywhere between point two and point 11 in your half of the board. After you’ve successfully assembled the prime to stop the activity of your competitor, your opponent doesn’t even get a chance to roll the dice, and you move your checkers and roll the dice again. You will be a winner for sure.

The Back Game Strategy

The objectives of the Back Game strategy and the Blocking Game tactic are very similar – to hurt your competitor’s positions in hope to improve your odds of succeeding, however the Back Game tactic uses different techniques to do that. The Back Game strategy is frequently employed when you are far behind your opponent. To compete in Backgammon with this tactic, you have to control 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single checker) late in the game. This plan is more difficult than others to use in Backgammon seeing as it needs careful movement of your chips and how the pieces are moved is partly the result of the dice toss.