As we dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a game of skill and good luck. The goal is to move your pieces safely around the board to your home board and at the same time your opposition shifts their pieces toward their home board in the opposing direction. With competing player chips moving in opposite directions there is bound to be conflict and the need for specific techniques at particular times. Here are the 2 final Backgammon tactics to finish off your game.

The Priming Game Tactic

If the goal of the blocking tactic is to slow down the opponent to move his pieces, the Priming Game tactic is to completely stop any activity of the opponent by constructing a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s pieces will either get bumped, or result a damaged position if he ever attempts to leave the wall. The trap of the prime can be established anyplace between point two and point eleven in your half of the board. As soon as you have successfully built the prime to prevent the activity of your competitor, the opponent doesn’t even get to roll the dice, and you shift your pieces and roll the dice yet again. You will win the game for sure.

The Back Game Strategy

The aims of the Back Game tactic and the Blocking Game technique are very similar – to harm your opponent’s positions in hope to improve your chances of winning, however the Back Game technique utilizes alternate techniques to do that. The Back Game tactic is commonly utilized when you are far behind your competitor. To participate in Backgammon with this strategy, you have 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 needs careful movement of your pieces and how the chips are relocated is partly the result of the dice toss.