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As we have dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a game of talent and luck. The aim is to move your chips safely around the game board to your inside board and at the same time your opposition shifts their chips toward their inside board in the opposing direction. With competing player chips moving in opposing directions there is going to be conflict and the need for particular strategies at particular instances. Here are the last two Backgammon techniques to round out your game.

The Priming Game Tactic

If the aim of the blocking plan is to hamper the opponents ability to move their pieces, the Priming Game tactic is to completely stop any activity of the opposing player by constructing a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s checkers will either get bumped, or result a battered position if he/she ever tries to leave the wall. The trap of the prime can be built anyplace between point 2 and point eleven in your game board. Once you’ve successfully assembled the prime to prevent the movement of your competitor, the competitor does not even get a chance to roll the dice, and you move your pieces and roll the dice again. You’ll win the game for sure.

The Back Game Technique

The goals of the Back Game strategy and the Blocking Game technique are very similar – to harm your competitor’s positions with hope to boost your odds of winning, however the Back Game strategy utilizes seperate tactics to achieve that. The Back Game strategy is frequently used when you’re far behind your competitor. To compete in Backgammon with this plan, you need to control two or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single piece) late in the game. This plan is more challenging than others to play in Backgammon because it needs careful movement of your checkers and how the checkers are moved is partly the outcome of the dice toss.