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As we dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a game of talent and pure luck. The goal is to move your checkers safely around the board to your home board and at the same time your opposition shifts their checkers toward their inside board in the opposing direction. With competing player chips shifting in opposite directions there is going to be conflict and the requirement for particular tactics at specific instances. Here are the two final Backgammon strategies to finish off your game.

The Priming Game Tactic

If the goal of the blocking strategy is to slow down the opponent to shift her pieces, the Priming Game tactic is to completely stop any movement of the opposing player by creating a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s checkers will either get hit, or end up in a bad position if he/she ever tries to escape the wall. The trap of the prime can be built anywhere between point 2 and point 11 in your board. After you have successfully built the prime to prevent the movement of your opponent, your competitor doesn’t even get to roll the dice, and you shift your pieces and roll the dice again. You will be a winner for sure.

The Back Game Strategy

The goals of the Back Game technique and the Blocking Game strategy are very similar – to harm your opponent’s positions with hope to better your chances of winning, but the Back Game tactic utilizes alternate tactics to achieve that. The Back Game strategy is commonly utilized when you are far behind your competitor. To participate in Backgammon with this tactic, you have to hold 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single checker) late in the game. This tactic is more challenging than others to use in Backgammon seeing as it requires careful movement of your chips and how the pieces are relocated is partially the result of the dice toss.