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As we dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a game of ability and pure luck. The aim is to shift your chips carefully around the board to your inside board while at the same time your opponent shifts their chips toward their inner board in the opposite direction. With opposing player pieces shifting in opposite directions there is going to be conflict and the requirement for particular strategies at specific times. Here are the 2 final Backgammon techniques to complete your game.

The Priming Game Tactic

If the goal of the blocking tactic is to hamper the opponents ability to move his chips, the Priming Game plan is to completely barricade any activity of the opponent by constructing a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s pieces will either get hit, or result a damaged position if she at all tries to escape the wall. The trap of the prime can be established anyplace between point 2 and point eleven in your half of the board. After you’ve successfully built the prime to stop the activity of your opponent, your 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 Strategy

The goals of the Back Game strategy and the Blocking Game tactic are very similar – to hinder your competitor’s positions with hope to better your chances of winning, however the Back Game technique relies on seperate tactics to achieve that. The Back Game technique is generally used when you are far behind your competitor. To compete in Backgammon with this strategy, you have to control 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This tactic is more complex than others to use in Backgammon because it needs careful movement of your checkers and how the checkers are relocated is partially the outcome of the dice toss.