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As we have dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a game of skill and luck. The goal is to move your chips safely around the game board to your home board and at the same time your opponent shifts their chips toward their inside board in the opposite direction. With opposing player chips shifting in opposite directions there is bound to be conflict and the need for particular techniques at particular instances. Here are the last 2 Backgammon tactics to complete your game.

The Priming Game Tactic

If the aim of the blocking tactic is to hamper the opponents ability to shift his pieces, the Priming Game tactic is to absolutely block any movement of the opposing player by constructing a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s chips will either get bumped, or end up in a damaged position if she at all tries to escape the wall. The ambush of the prime can be built anywhere between point two and point 11 in your game board. Once you have successfully built the prime to stop the movement of your competitor, the competitor does not even get to roll the dice, that means you move your pieces and toss the dice again. You’ll be a winner for sure.

The Back Game Plan

The goals of the Back Game strategy and the Blocking Game technique are very similar – to hurt your opponent’s positions with hope to improve your chances of winning, however the Back Game plan utilizes seperate tactics to achieve that. The Back Game tactic is frequently used when you’re far behind your competitor. To play Backgammon with this strategy, you need to hold two or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single checker) late in the game. This technique is more complex than others to employ in Backgammon because it requires careful movement of your pieces and how the chips are relocated is partly the outcome of the dice roll.