As we have dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a game of ability and luck. The goal is to shift your chips safely around the board to your inside board and at the same time your opposing player shifts their checkers toward their home board in the opposing direction. With opposing player checkers heading in opposite directions there is bound to be conflict and the need for specific techniques at specific times. Here are the last 2 Backgammon tactics to round out your game.

The Priming Game Tactic

If the aim of the blocking plan is to hamper the opponents ability to shift his checkers, the Priming Game plan is to completely barricade any movement of the opposing player by building a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s pieces will either get bumped, or result a bad position if she at all attempts to escape the wall. The ambush of the prime can be built anyplace between point two and point eleven in your board. Once you’ve successfully assembled the prime to stop the movement of your opponent, your opponent doesn’t even get to roll the dice, that means you shift your chips and roll the dice yet again. You’ll win the game for sure.

The Back Game Technique

The goals of the Back Game strategy and the Blocking Game strategy are very similar – to hinder your competitor’s positions hoping to better your chances of winning, however the Back Game plan utilizes alternate tactics to do that. The Back Game plan is frequently utilized when you’re far behind your opponent. To play Backgammon with this tactic, you have to hold two or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This strategy is more challenging than others to employ in Backgammon because it requires careful movement of your pieces and how the pieces are relocated is partly the outcome of the dice toss.