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As we have dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a game of skill and good luck. The aim is to move your checkers safely around the game board to your home board while at the same time your opponent shifts their checkers toward their inside board in the opposing direction. With competing player pieces moving in opposing directions there is going to be conflict and the requirement for specific techniques at specific instances. Here are the last two Backgammon tactics to round out your game.

The Priming Game Strategy

If the aim of the blocking tactic is to slow down the opponent to move his checkers, the Priming Game strategy is to completely barricade any activity of the opposing player by creating a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s chips will either get hit, or result a damaged position if he ever attempts to leave the wall. The ambush of the prime can be built anywhere between point two and point 11 in your game board. Once you’ve successfully assembled the prime to prevent the activity of your opponent, the competitor doesn’t even get to toss the dice, that means you shift your chips and toss the dice again. You will be a winner for sure.

The Back Game Tactic

The goals of the Back Game strategy and the Blocking Game strategy are similar – to hinder your opponent’s positions with hope to improve your chances of succeeding, but the Back Game strategy relies on different tactics to achieve that. The Back Game plan is generally used when you are far behind your competitor. To compete in Backgammon with this technique, you need to control 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This tactic is more difficult than others to use in Backgammon seeing as it needs careful movement of your pieces and how the pieces are relocated is partly the result of the dice roll.