As we dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a casino game of skill and good luck. The goal is to move your pieces safely around the game board to your inner board and at the same time your opposing player shifts their chips toward their inner board in the opposite direction. With competing player checkers heading in opposite directions there is going to be conflict and the need for particular strategies at specific times. Here are the 2 final Backgammon techniques to complete your game.

The Priming Game Tactic

If the goal of the blocking plan is to hamper the opponents ability to shift their chips, the Priming Game strategy is to absolutely stop any activity of the opposing player by constructing a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s checkers will either get hit, or end up in a bad position if he at all tries to escape the wall. The ambush of the prime can be built anyplace between point 2 and point 11 in your game board. As soon as you’ve successfully constructed the prime to prevent the movement of the competitor, the competitor doesn’t even get a chance to roll the dice, that means you move your checkers and toss the dice yet again. You’ll be a winner for sure.

The Back Game Technique

The objectives of the Back Game technique and the Blocking Game strategy are very similar – to hinder your competitor’s positions hoping to boost your chances of succeeding, however the Back Game strategy uses different techniques to achieve that. The Back Game technique is commonly used when you are far behind your competitor. To participate in Backgammon with this technique, you need to control 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This tactic is more difficult than others to employ in Backgammon because it needs careful movement of your checkers and how the pieces are moved is partially the result of the dice toss.