As we dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a casino game of skill and luck. The aim is to shift your checkers carefully around the board to your inner board and at the same time your opposition moves their pieces toward their inside board in the opposing direction. With opposing player chips shifting in opposing directions there is going to be conflict and the requirement for specific strategies at particular times. Here are the last 2 Backgammon tactics to round out your game.

The Priming Game Plan

If the goal of the blocking tactic is to slow down the opponent to move his checkers, the Priming Game tactic is to completely block any movement of the opponent by assembling a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s pieces will either get hit, or result a bad position if he at all tries to escape the wall. The ambush of the prime can be built anywhere between point two and point eleven in your board. As soon as you have successfully constructed the prime to stop the movement of the competitor, your competitor does not even get to roll the dice, that means you move your checkers and roll the dice again. You will be a winner for sure.

The Back Game Tactic

The goals of the Back Game tactic and the Blocking Game plan are very similar – to hurt your opponent’s positions hoping to boost your odds of winning, however the Back Game technique uses alternate techniques to achieve that. The Back Game tactic is often employed when you are far behind your opponent. To play Backgammon with this plan, you have to hold two or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This plan is more challenging than others to play in Backgammon seeing as it requires careful movement of your checkers and how the pieces are moved is partially the result of the dice toss.