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As we dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a casino game of talent and luck. The aim is to shift your pieces carefully around the board to your inside board and at the same time your opposing player shifts their chips toward their inside board in the opposite direction. With opposing player chips heading in opposite directions there is bound to be conflict and the requirement for particular strategies at particular times. Here are the 2 final Backgammon tactics to finish off your game.

The Priming Game Strategy

If the purpose of the blocking tactic is to slow down the opponent to move their chips, the Priming Game strategy is to absolutely stop any movement of the opponent by creating a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s checkers will either get bumped, or end up in a bad position if he/she ever tries to leave the wall. The ambush of the prime can be setup anyplace between point two and point 11 in your board. As soon as you’ve successfully assembled the prime to stop the movement of your competitor, your competitor doesn’t even get to roll the dice, and you move your checkers and roll the dice again. You will be a winner for sure.

The Back Game Technique

The goals of the Back Game plan and the Blocking Game tactic are very similar – to harm your opponent’s positions with hope to boost your odds of winning, however the Back Game strategy uses different tactics to do that. The Back Game plan is often used when you’re far behind your opponent. To participate in Backgammon with this strategy, you need to hold two or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single checker) late in the game. This plan is more complex than others to employ in Backgammon seeing as it requires careful movement of your chips and how the pieces are relocated is partly the outcome of the dice toss.