As we dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a game of skill and good luck. The aim is to shift your pieces safely around the game board to your inside board and at the same time your opposing player moves their pieces toward their inside board in the opposing direction. With opposing player chips heading in opposing directions there is bound to be conflict and the need for specific techniques at particular instances. Here are the two final Backgammon tactics to complete your game.

The Priming Game Strategy

If the purpose of the blocking plan is to slow down the opponent to shift his pieces, the Priming Game strategy is to completely barricade any activity of the opponent by assembling a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s chips will either get hit, or result a bad position if he ever tries to escape the wall. The trap of the prime can be setup anyplace between point 2 and point eleven in your game board. Once you have successfully constructed the prime to block the activity of your opponent, the opponent does not even get a chance to roll the dice, and you move your pieces and roll the dice yet again. You will be a winner for sure.

The Back Game Strategy

The goals of the Back Game strategy and the Blocking Game tactic are similar – to harm your competitor’s positions in hope to better your odds of succeeding, but the Back Game technique uses seperate tactics to do that. The Back Game plan is often utilized when you are far behind your opponent. To play 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 complex than others to employ in Backgammon because it requires careful movement of your checkers and how the chips are relocated is partly the result of the dice toss.