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As we have dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a game of talent and pure luck. The aim is to move your checkers carefully around the game board to your home board and at the same time your opposing player moves their checkers toward their home board in the opposing direction. With competing player chips shifting in opposite directions there is bound to be conflict and the need for specific techniques at particular instances. Here are the last 2 Backgammon tactics to finish off your game.

The Priming Game Strategy

If the purpose of the blocking tactic is to slow down the opponent to move their chips, the Priming Game plan is to absolutely barricade any movement of the opponent by creating a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s pieces will either get bumped, or end up in a bad position if he/she ever tries to leave the wall. The ambush of the prime can be built anywhere between point two and point eleven in your game board. Once you’ve successfully assembled the prime to prevent the activity of the competitor, the opponent doesn’t even get to toss the dice, and you move your checkers and toss the dice again. You will be a winner for sure.

The Back Game Technique

The objectives of the Back Game plan and the Blocking Game plan are very similar – to hurt your competitor’s positions hoping to better your odds of winning, however the Back Game tactic uses seperate tactics to do that. The Back Game tactic is frequently employed when you are far behind your competitor. To play Backgammon with this technique, you need to control 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This plan is more challenging than others to employ in Backgammon seeing as it requires careful movement of your chips and how the pieces are relocated is partially the result of the dice toss.