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As we have dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a game of ability and luck. The aim is to shift your chips carefully around the board to your home board while at the same time your opponent shifts their chips toward their inside board in the opposing direction. With opposing player chips shifting in opposite directions there is bound to be conflict and the requirement for specific techniques at particular times. Here are the 2 final Backgammon techniques to finish off your game.

The Priming Game Tactic

If the goal of the blocking plan is to hamper the opponents ability to shift her pieces, the Priming Game strategy is to completely barricade any movement of the opposing player by assembling a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s checkers will either get hit, or result a bad position if he/she ever tries to leave the wall. The trap of the prime can be established anyplace between point two and point 11 in your game board. Once you’ve successfully assembled the prime to stop the movement of your competitor, the opponent does not even get a chance to toss the dice, and you move your pieces and toss the dice yet again. You’ll win the game for sure.

The Back Game Plan

The goals of the Back Game strategy and the Blocking Game plan are very similar – to harm your competitor’s positions with hope to boost your chances of winning, however the Back Game tactic utilizes seperate techniques to do that. The Back Game technique is often employed when you’re far behind your opponent. To play Backgammon with this tactic, you need to hold two or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This tactic is more complex than others to employ in Backgammon seeing as it requires careful movement of your checkers and how the chips are relocated is partly the result of the dice roll.