As we have dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a game of talent and good luck. The goal is to shift your pieces carefully around the game board to your inside board while at the same time your opponent shifts their chips toward their inside board in the opposing direction. With competing player checkers moving in opposite directions there is bound to be conflict and the requirement for specific tactics at specific instances. Here are the 2 final Backgammon tactics to complete your game.

The Priming Game Plan

If the purpose of the blocking tactic is to hamper the opponents ability to shift their pieces, the Priming Game strategy is to completely barricade any movement of the opponent by assembling a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s chips will either get bumped, or end up in a battered position if he/she at all attempts to escape the wall. The ambush of the prime can be built anyplace between point two and point 11 in your game board. After you’ve successfully built the prime to prevent the movement of your opponent, the opponent doesn’t even get to roll the dice, that means you move your checkers and toss the dice yet again. You will be a winner for sure.

The Back Game Technique

The aims of the Back Game strategy and the Blocking Game strategy are similar – to harm your competitor’s positions hoping to improve your odds of succeeding, but the Back Game strategy relies on alternate techniques to do that. The Back Game tactic is generally utilized when you’re far behind your opponent. To compete in Backgammon with this technique, you need to control two or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This technique is more difficult than others to play in Backgammon seeing as it needs careful movement of your chips and how the checkers are relocated is partially the result of the dice roll.