As we dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a casino game of talent and luck. The goal is to shift your checkers carefully around the board to your inner board while at the same time your opposing player shifts their checkers toward their inner board in the opposing direction. With competing player chips shifting in opposite directions there is bound to be conflict and the need for particular strategies at specific instances. Here are the last two Backgammon techniques to complete your game.

The Priming Game Strategy

If the goal of the blocking strategy is to hamper the opponents ability to move his checkers, the Priming Game strategy is to completely stop any activity of the opponent by constructing a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s pieces will either get bumped, or end up in a battered position if she ever attempts to leave the wall. The ambush of the prime can be built anyplace between point two and point eleven in your half of the board. Once you have successfully assembled the prime to prevent the activity of your opponent, the opponent doesn’t even get a chance to roll the dice, that means you shift your chips and toss the dice yet again. You will win the game for sure.

The Back Game Technique

The goals of the Back Game strategy and the Blocking Game technique are similar – to hinder your opponent’s positions hoping to improve your odds of winning, however the Back Game technique utilizes seperate tactics to do that. The Back Game technique is frequently used when you are far behind your opponent. To play Backgammon with this strategy, you need to hold two or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single checker) late in the game. This technique is more challenging than others to use in Backgammon because it requires careful movement of your checkers and how the pieces are moved is partly the outcome of the dice roll.