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As we have dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a game of talent and luck. The goal is to shift your pieces carefully around the board to your home board while at the same time your opposition shifts their pieces toward their inside board in the opposite direction. With competing player checkers heading in opposing directions there is going to be conflict and the requirement for particular tactics at specific times. Here are the last 2 Backgammon strategies to round out your game.

The Priming Game Tactic

If the goal of the blocking tactic is to hamper the opponents ability to move their chips, the Priming Game strategy is to absolutely barricade any movement of the opponent by assembling a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s chips will either get hit, or result a bad position if she ever attempts to leave the wall. The ambush of the prime can be built anyplace between point two and point 11 in your board. Once you’ve successfully assembled the prime to stop the movement of your competitor, your opponent does not even get to toss the dice, that means you move your chips and toss the dice yet again. You will be a winner for sure.

The Back Game Strategy

The goals of the Back Game technique and the Blocking Game technique are similar – to harm your opponent’s positions with hope to boost your chances of succeeding, but the Back Game plan utilizes different tactics to do that. The Back Game strategy is frequently employed when you’re far behind your opponent. To play Backgammon with this tactic, you need to hold two or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single piece) late in the game. This technique is more complex than others to employ in Backgammon because it requires careful movement of your checkers and how the checkers are moved is partly the outcome of the dice toss.