As we have dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a game of ability and pure luck. The goal is to shift your pieces carefully around the board to your inner board while at the same time your opposition shifts their pieces toward their home board in the opposite direction. With competing player pieces heading in opposing directions there is going to be conflict and the requirement for particular tactics at particular instances. Here are the last 2 Backgammon techniques to round out your game.

The Priming Game Strategy

If the goal of the blocking strategy is to slow down the opponent to move his pieces, the Priming Game tactic is to completely stop any activity of the opponent by building a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s chips will either get hit, or result a damaged position if he/she at all tries to leave the wall. The ambush of the prime can be setup anyplace between point two and point eleven in your board. Once you’ve successfully assembled the prime to block the activity of your competitor, your competitor doesn’t even get a chance to toss the dice, and you shift your pieces and roll the dice yet again. You’ll win the game for sure.

The Back Game Strategy

The objectives of the Back Game tactic and the Blocking Game strategy are similar – to hinder your opponent’s positions in hope to better your odds of winning, but the Back Game tactic utilizes seperate tactics to do that. The Back Game plan is often utilized when you are far behind your opponent. To compete in Backgammon with this strategy, you need to hold two or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single piece) late in the game. This strategy is more difficult than others to play in Backgammon seeing as it requires careful movement of your pieces and how the pieces are relocated is partly the outcome of the dice toss.