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As we have dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a casino game of talent and good luck. The aim is to shift your chips carefully around the game board to your inside board while at the same time your opposition moves their checkers toward their inside board in the opposite direction. With competing player chips heading in opposing directions there is going to be conflict and the requirement for specific techniques at specific times. Here are the 2 final Backgammon tactics to round out your game.

The Priming Game Tactic

If the purpose of the blocking tactic is to slow down the opponent to move their pieces, the Priming Game plan is to completely barricade any movement of the opponent by creating a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s chips will either get hit, or result a battered position if he/she at all tries to escape the wall. The ambush of the prime can be established anywhere between point two and point eleven in your board. After you’ve successfully constructed the prime to prevent the movement of your competitor, the competitor doesn’t even get a chance to toss the dice, and you move your chips and roll the dice yet again. You’ll be a winner for sure.

The Back Game Plan

The aims of the Back Game strategy and the Blocking Game tactic are similar – to hinder your competitor’s positions hoping to improve your odds of winning, but the Back Game tactic relies on different tactics to do that. The Back Game technique is frequently used when you are far behind your opponent. To compete in Backgammon with this technique, you have to hold two or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This tactic is more difficult than others to play in Backgammon because it needs careful movement of your pieces and how the checkers are relocated is partially the outcome of the dice toss.