As we have dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a game of skill and good luck. The goal is to move your pieces safely around the board to your inside board while at the same time your opponent shifts their pieces toward their home board in the opposite direction. With opposing player chips moving in opposing directions there is going to be conflict and the need for specific tactics at particular times. Here are the two final Backgammon techniques to round out your game.

The Priming Game Tactic

If the goal of the blocking plan is to hamper the opponents ability to shift her chips, the Priming Game tactic is to absolutely stop any movement of the opposing player by creating a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s pieces will either get bumped, or result a damaged position if he at all attempts to leave the wall. The trap of the prime can be built anyplace between point two and point eleven in your game board. As soon as you’ve successfully assembled the prime to stop the movement of your competitor, the opponent doesn’t even get to toss the dice, that means you shift your chips and toss the dice yet again. You will be a winner for sure.

The Back Game Plan

The goals of the Back Game tactic and the Blocking Game strategy are similar – to hurt your opponent’s positions hoping to improve your odds of winning, but the Back Game tactic relies on seperate techniques to do that. The Back Game strategy is frequently utilized when you’re far behind your opponent. To compete in Backgammon with this tactic, you have to hold 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single piece) late in the game. This strategy is more complex than others to employ in Backgammon because it needs careful movement of your chips and how the pieces are moved is partly the outcome of the dice toss.