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As we dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a game of skill and good luck. The goal is to move your checkers carefully around the game board to your home board and at the same time your opponent moves their chips toward their inside board in the opposite direction. With opposing player chips shifting in opposite directions there is bound to be conflict and the requirement for particular techniques at particular times. Here are the last 2 Backgammon tactics to round out your game.

The Priming Game Plan

If the aim of the blocking strategy is to slow down the opponent to move her chips, the Priming Game plan is to completely stop any movement of the opponent by building a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s chips will either get hit, or result a bad position if she at all attempts to leave the wall. The trap of the prime can be setup anyplace between point two and point eleven in your half of the board. As soon as you have successfully built the prime to block the activity of your competitor, the opponent doesn’t even get a chance to roll the dice, that means you move your chips and roll the dice again. You’ll win the game for sure.

The Back Game Strategy

The objectives of the Back Game technique and the Blocking Game tactic are very similar – to hurt your opponent’s positions with hope to boost your odds of succeeding, but the Back Game strategy utilizes different tactics to achieve that. The Back Game plan is frequently used when you’re far behind your opponent. To play Backgammon with this tactic, you need to control two or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This strategy is more challenging than others to employ in Backgammon because it requires careful movement of your chips and how the chips are relocated is partially the result of the dice toss.