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As we dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a game of ability and pure luck. The aim is to shift your chips carefully around the game board to your home board and at the same time your opposition shifts their chips toward their inside board in the opposing direction. With opposing player chips shifting in opposing directions there is bound to be conflict and the requirement for specific techniques at particular times. Here are the last two Backgammon techniques to complete your game.

The Priming Game Plan

If the goal of the blocking plan is to hamper the opponents ability to shift his pieces, the Priming Game plan is to completely block any activity of the opponent by building a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s checkers will either get hit, or result a damaged position if he at all attempts to leave the wall. The ambush of the prime can be built anyplace between point 2 and point eleven in your game board. After you’ve successfully constructed the prime to block the movement of your competitor, your competitor does not even get to roll the dice, and you shift your pieces and toss the dice again. You will be a winner for sure.

The Back Game Technique

The goals of the Back Game strategy and the Blocking Game tactic are similar – to hurt your opponent’s positions hoping to improve your odds of succeeding, however the Back Game tactic uses seperate techniques to achieve that. The Back Game strategy is commonly used when you are far behind your opponent. To play Backgammon with this tactic, you need to control 2 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 employ in Backgammon because it needs careful movement of your chips and how the checkers are relocated is partly the outcome of the dice roll.