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

The Priming Game Tactic

If the purpose of the blocking plan is to slow down the opponent to move his checkers, the Priming Game tactic is to completely barricade any activity of the opposing player by creating a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s pieces will either get hit, or end up in a battered position if he/she ever tries to escape the wall. The ambush of the prime can be setup anywhere between point 2 and point 11 in your board. As soon as you’ve successfully assembled the prime to stop the movement of the competitor, your competitor doesn’t even get a chance to toss the dice, and you move your chips and roll the dice again. You’ll be a winner for sure.

The Back Game Tactic

The aims of the Back Game plan and the Blocking Game plan are very similar – to harm your competitor’s positions hoping to improve your odds of succeeding, but the Back Game tactic uses seperate techniques to do that. The Back Game tactic is often utilized when you’re far behind your competitor. To play Backgammon with this technique, you need to hold two or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single checker) late in the game. This technique is more difficult than others to employ in Backgammon because it requires careful movement of your chips and how the checkers are relocated is partially the result of the dice toss.