As we dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a game of ability and luck. The goal is to move your chips carefully around the game board to your home board and at the same time your opposition shifts their chips toward their home board in the opposite direction. With opposing player chips shifting in opposite directions there is bound to be conflict and the need for specific tactics at specific times. Here are the last two Backgammon techniques to round out your game.

The Priming Game Tactic

If the aim of the blocking tactic is to slow down the opponent to shift his chips, the Priming Game plan is to absolutely block any movement of the opposing player by assembling a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s chips will either get bumped, or result a bad position if he/she ever tries to leave the wall. The ambush of the prime can be built anywhere between point 2 and point 11 in your half of the board. Once you have successfully built the prime to prevent the activity of the competitor, your opponent doesn’t even get to roll the dice, that means you shift your checkers and toss the dice again. You’ll be a winner for sure.

The Back Game Technique

The goals of the Back Game tactic and the Blocking Game strategy are very similar – to harm your opponent’s positions in hope to improve your chances of succeeding, but the Back Game strategy relies on alternate techniques to do that. The Back Game plan is commonly used when you are far behind your opponent. To play Backgammon with this technique, you have to hold two 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 checkers and how the chips are moved is partly the result of the dice toss.