As we dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a casino game of skill and pure luck. The aim is to shift your pieces safely around the game board to your inside board and at the same time your opponent shifts their pieces toward their home board in the opposite direction. With opposing player checkers moving in opposite directions there is going to be conflict and the requirement for particular tactics at particular instances. Here are the last two Backgammon tactics to round out your game.

The Priming Game Plan

If the goal of the blocking strategy is to slow down the opponent to move her pieces, the Priming Game strategy is to absolutely block any activity of the opponent by creating a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s pieces will either get bumped, or end up in a battered position if she ever tries to escape the wall. The trap of the prime can be established anyplace between point two and point 11 in your board. After you have successfully constructed the prime to prevent the movement of your competitor, your competitor doesn’t even get to roll the dice, and you shift your chips and roll the dice yet again. You will be a winner for sure.

The Back Game Plan

The goals of the Back Game strategy and the Blocking Game tactic are very similar – to harm your competitor’s positions in hope to better your chances of winning, but the Back Game technique utilizes different techniques to do that. The Back Game technique is often used when you’re far behind your opponent. To participate in Backgammon with this technique, you have to hold 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single piece) late in the game. This technique is more challenging than others to use in Backgammon because it requires careful movement of your chips and how the checkers are moved is partly the outcome of the dice roll.