As we dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a game of skill and luck. The goal is to move your checkers safely around the board to your inside board while at the same time your opponent moves their checkers toward their inside board in the opposing direction. With opposing player chips shifting in opposite directions there is bound to be conflict and the need for specific techniques at particular times. Here are the last two Backgammon techniques to complete your game.

The Priming Game Tactic

If the aim of the blocking strategy is to hamper the opponents ability to move her checkers, the Priming Game plan is to completely stop any movement of the opposing player by building a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s chips will either get bumped, or end up in a bad position if he ever tries to escape the wall. The trap of the prime can be built anyplace between point two and point eleven in your half of the board. Once you’ve successfully built the prime to block the movement of the competitor, the opponent doesn’t even get to roll the dice, that means you move your checkers and roll the dice again. You will be a winner for sure.

The Back Game Strategy

The objectives of the Back Game plan and the Blocking Game technique are similar – to hurt your opponent’s positions hoping to improve your odds of winning, however the Back Game tactic uses different techniques to achieve that. The Back Game strategy is often utilized when you are far behind your competitor. To participate in Backgammon with this technique, you have to control 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single checker) late in the game. This strategy is more complex than others to employ in Backgammon seeing as it needs careful movement of your checkers and how the pieces are relocated is partly the outcome of the dice roll.