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As we dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a game of ability and luck. The goal is to shift your chips safely around the board to your home board while at the same time your opposition moves their pieces toward their inside board in the opposing direction. With competing player pieces moving in opposing directions there is going to be conflict and the requirement for particular strategies at particular instances. Here are the two final Backgammon techniques to complete your game.

The Priming Game Tactic

If the goal of the blocking tactic is to slow down the opponent to shift his chips, the Priming Game plan is to completely barricade any activity of the opposing player by assembling a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s checkers will either get hit, or end up in a battered position if she ever tries to escape the wall. The trap of the prime can be built anywhere between point 2 and point 11 in your game board. Once you’ve successfully assembled the prime to prevent the movement of the opponent, the opponent doesn’t even get to toss the dice, that means you shift your chips and roll the dice again. You’ll be a winner for sure.

The Back Game Plan

The objectives of the Back Game technique and the Blocking Game technique are very similar – to hinder your competitor’s positions in hope to better your odds of succeeding, however the Back Game technique utilizes different techniques to achieve that. The Back Game strategy is often used when you are far behind your opponent. To participate in Backgammon with this strategy, you need to hold two or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This plan is more difficult than others to play in Backgammon seeing as it needs careful movement of your chips and how the pieces are moved is partially the result of the dice toss.