As we have dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a game of talent and good luck. The goal is to shift your pieces safely around the board to your home board and at the same time your opponent shifts their checkers toward their inside board in the opposite direction. With competing player checkers heading in opposing directions there is going to be conflict and the need for specific techniques at specific instances. Here are the last two Backgammon tactics to finish off your game.

The Priming Game Strategy

If the purpose of the blocking strategy is to slow down the opponent to move his pieces, the Priming Game strategy is to completely barricade 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 damaged position if he ever attempts to leave the wall. The trap of the prime can be setup anywhere between point 2 and point 11 in your half of the board. Once you’ve successfully constructed the prime to stop the movement of your competitor, the competitor doesn’t even get a chance to toss the dice, and you shift your pieces and roll the dice again. You’ll be a winner for sure.

The Back Game Strategy

The goals of the Back Game technique and the Blocking Game technique are similar – to harm your opponent’s positions with hope to better your odds of winning, but the Back Game strategy relies on alternate techniques to achieve that. The Back Game strategy is commonly utilized when you’re far behind your competitor. To participate in Backgammon with this tactic, you have to hold 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This plan is more difficult than others to use in Backgammon because it requires careful movement of your chips and how the checkers are moved is partly the result of the dice toss.