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As we have dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a casino game of talent and luck. The goal is to move your checkers safely around the game board to your inner board while at the same time your opposing player shifts their checkers toward their home board in the opposite direction. With opposing player checkers moving in opposing directions there is bound to be conflict and the need for specific strategies at specific instances. Here are the two final Backgammon tactics to round out your game.

The Priming Game Strategy

If the aim of the blocking plan is to hamper the opponents ability to shift his checkers, the Priming Game plan is to absolutely stop any activity of the opposing player by assembling a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s chips will either get hit, or result a battered position if he/she ever attempts to leave the wall. The ambush of the prime can be setup anyplace between point 2 and point 11 in your game board. As soon as you’ve successfully constructed the prime to stop the activity of the opponent, the opponent does not even get to roll the dice, and you move your pieces and roll the dice yet again. You’ll be a winner for sure.

The Back Game Technique

The objectives of the Back Game technique and the Blocking Game plan are similar – to hurt your competitor’s positions in hope to improve your chances of succeeding, but the Back Game plan relies on alternate tactics to achieve that. The Back Game strategy is often employed when you’re far behind your competitor. To play Backgammon with this strategy, you need to control two or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This strategy is more challenging than others to use in Backgammon seeing as it needs careful movement of your pieces and how the chips are relocated is partially the result of the dice toss.