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As we dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a casino game of talent and good luck. The goal is to shift your pieces carefully around the board to your home board while at the same time your opponent moves their pieces toward their inner board in the opposite direction. With opposing player chips moving in opposing directions there is going to be conflict and the requirement for specific techniques at specific times. Here are the 2 final Backgammon techniques to finish off your game.

The Priming Game Strategy

If the purpose of the blocking strategy is to hamper the opponents ability to shift her pieces, the Priming Game strategy is to completely block any activity of the opponent by assembling a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s pieces will either get bumped, or result a battered position if he at all tries to leave the wall. The ambush of the prime can be setup anyplace between point two and point eleven in your board. As soon as you have successfully assembled the prime to block the movement of your opponent, the opponent does not even get a chance to roll the dice, and you move your chips and roll the dice again. You’ll win the game for sure.

The Back Game Strategy

The objectives of the Back Game strategy and the Blocking Game plan are very similar – to hurt your opponent’s positions in hope to improve your odds of winning, however the Back Game tactic uses seperate tactics to achieve that. The Back Game technique is generally utilized when you’re far behind your opponent. To participate in Backgammon with this plan, you need to control two or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single checker) late in the game. This strategy is more complex than others to employ in Backgammon because it requires careful movement of your checkers and how the chips are relocated is partly the outcome of the dice roll.