As we dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a game of skill and pure luck. The goal is to move your chips carefully around the game board to your inside board while at the same time your opposition shifts their checkers 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 strategies at particular instances. Here are the 2 final Backgammon tactics to finish off your game.

The Priming Game Tactic

If the aim of the blocking plan is to hamper the opponents ability to shift her pieces, the Priming Game tactic is to completely block any movement of the opposing player by constructing a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s pieces will either get hit, or end up in a battered position if he/she ever tries to leave the wall. The ambush of the prime can be setup anywhere between point two and point eleven in your game board. As soon as you have successfully assembled the prime to block the activity of your opponent, your opponent does not even get a chance to roll the dice, and you shift your pieces and toss the dice again. You’ll win the game for sure.

The Back Game Strategy

The objectives of the Back Game technique and the Blocking Game technique are very similar – to hurt your competitor’s positions with hope to boost your odds of succeeding, but the Back Game plan uses seperate tactics to achieve that. The Back Game tactic is often utilized when you’re far behind your opponent. To compete in Backgammon with this tactic, you have to hold two or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This technique is more challenging than others to play in Backgammon seeing as it needs careful movement of your checkers and how the chips are relocated is partly the result of the dice roll.