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As we have dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a casino game of ability and luck. The aim is to shift your chips carefully around the board to your inner board while at the same time your opposing player shifts their checkers toward their home board in the opposing direction. With competing player checkers heading in opposite directions there is bound to be conflict and the need for specific strategies at particular instances. Here are the 2 final Backgammon techniques to round out your game.

The Priming Game Strategy

If the aim of the blocking strategy is to hamper the opponents ability to move her checkers, the Priming Game plan is to absolutely barricade any movement of the opponent by assembling a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s chips will either get bumped, or result a bad position if he/she at all tries to escape the wall. The ambush of the prime can be established anyplace between point two and point 11 in your game board. As soon as you’ve successfully assembled the prime to stop the movement of the competitor, your opponent doesn’t even get a chance to toss the dice, that means you move your pieces and roll the dice again. You will win the game for sure.

The Back Game Tactic

The goals of the Back Game strategy and the Blocking Game technique are very similar – to hinder your competitor’s positions hoping to improve your odds of succeeding, but the Back Game technique relies on seperate tactics to achieve that. The Back Game plan is generally utilized when you are far behind your opponent. To compete in Backgammon with this tactic, you need to control 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single checker) late in the game. This tactic is more difficult than others to employ in Backgammon seeing as it requires careful movement of your checkers and how the pieces are moved is partially the result of the dice toss.