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As we have dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a game of talent and luck. The goal is to move your pieces carefully around the game board to your inside board while at the same time your opposing player shifts their chips toward their home board in the opposing direction. With competing player pieces moving in opposing directions there is going to be conflict and the requirement for particular tactics at specific instances. Here are the 2 final Backgammon tactics to complete your game.

The Priming Game Tactic

If the purpose of the blocking strategy is to hamper the opponents ability to shift her chips, the Priming Game plan is to completely block any activity of the opposing player 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 she ever tries to escape the wall. The trap of the prime can be established anywhere between point 2 and point eleven in your game board. Once you’ve successfully assembled the prime to prevent the movement of the competitor, the competitor doesn’t even get to toss the dice, that means you shift your pieces and toss the dice yet again. You’ll be a winner for sure.

The Back Game Strategy

The goals of the Back Game technique and the Blocking Game strategy are very similar – to hurt your opponent’s positions with hope to improve your odds of succeeding, but the Back Game strategy utilizes seperate tactics to achieve that. The Back Game strategy is generally utilized when you are far behind your opponent. To participate 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 strategy is more challenging than others to play in Backgammon because it requires careful movement of your pieces and how the chips are relocated is partially the result of the dice roll.