As we have dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a game of ability and good luck. The aim is to shift your checkers safely around the game board to your home board and at the same time your opposition moves their pieces toward their home board in the opposing direction. With competing player chips shifting in opposite directions there is bound to be conflict and the need for particular strategies at particular instances. Here are the 2 final Backgammon techniques to finish off your game.

The Priming Game Plan

If the purpose of the blocking tactic is to hamper the opponents ability to shift their pieces, the Priming Game strategy is to completely block any activity of the opposing player by building a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s chips will either get hit, or result a bad position if he/she at all attempts to escape the wall. The trap of the prime can be setup anyplace between point two and point 11 in your board. Once you’ve successfully built the prime to prevent the movement of your opponent, your opponent does not even get to roll the dice, and you shift your chips and roll the dice yet again. You’ll be a winner for sure.

The Back Game Technique

The aims of the Back Game strategy and the Blocking Game technique are very similar – to harm your competitor’s positions in hope to improve your chances of succeeding, but the Back Game tactic uses different tactics to achieve that. The Back Game technique is often used when you’re far behind your opponent. To participate in Backgammon with this plan, you have to control two or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This tactic is more complex than others to use in Backgammon seeing as it needs careful movement of your checkers and how the checkers are moved is partially the result of the dice roll.