As we dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a game of ability and luck. The aim is to move your pieces safely around the game board to your inside board and at the same time your opposing player moves their checkers toward their inner board in the opposite direction. With opposing player chips moving in opposite directions there is going to be conflict and the requirement for specific tactics at specific times. Here are the last 2 Backgammon techniques to round out your game.

The Priming Game Plan

If the aim of the blocking plan is to hamper the opponents ability to shift his checkers, the Priming Game strategy is to absolutely block any movement of the opponent by creating a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s pieces will either get bumped, or end up in a bad position if she ever attempts to escape the wall. The ambush of the prime can be setup anyplace between point 2 and point eleven in your game board. Once you have successfully constructed the prime to stop the movement of your competitor, your competitor does not even get a chance 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 Strategy

The objectives of the Back Game technique and the Blocking Game technique are similar – to harm your opponent’s positions in hope to boost your odds of succeeding, but the Back Game strategy relies on alternate techniques to achieve that. The Back Game tactic is generally utilized when you’re far behind your competitor. To participate in Backgammon with this technique, you have to control two or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single checker) late in the game. This tactic is more difficult than others to play in Backgammon seeing as it needs careful movement of your checkers and how the checkers are relocated is partly the result of the dice roll.