As we dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a game of skill and good luck. The goal is to shift your checkers safely around the game board to your inner board while at the same time your opponent shifts their checkers toward their inside board in the opposite direction. With opposing player checkers heading in opposite directions there is bound to be conflict and the need for particular techniques at particular times. Here are the two final Backgammon techniques to finish off your game.

The Priming Game Strategy

If the aim of the blocking tactic is to hamper the opponents ability to move their chips, the Priming Game strategy is to completely barricade any movement of the opponent by creating a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s pieces will either get bumped, or result a battered position if he at all attempts to escape the wall. The trap of the prime can be established anywhere between point two and point eleven in your board. Once you’ve successfully constructed the prime to stop the activity of the opponent, your competitor does not even get a chance to toss the dice, and you move your pieces and roll the dice yet again. You will be a winner for sure.

The Back Game Plan

The aims of the Back Game plan and the Blocking Game tactic are similar – to hurt your opponent’s positions in hope to improve your chances of succeeding, but the Back Game tactic uses seperate tactics to do that. The Back Game strategy is frequently used when you are far behind your competitor. To compete in Backgammon with this technique, you need to control 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single checker) late in the game. This technique is more difficult than others to play in Backgammon because it requires careful movement of your pieces and how the checkers are relocated is partly the result of the dice roll.