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As we dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a casino game of ability and luck. The goal is to move your pieces carefully around the board to your inside board while at the same time your opposition shifts their checkers toward their home board in the opposing direction. With competing player pieces moving in opposing directions there is going to be conflict and the need for specific techniques at particular instances. Here are the two final Backgammon techniques to finish off your game.

The Priming Game Strategy

If the purpose of the blocking tactic is to slow down the opponent to shift his checkers, the Priming Game strategy is to completely barricade any movement of the opposing player by creating a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s chips will either get hit, or end up in a bad position if he/she at all attempts to escape the wall. The trap of the prime can be established anywhere between point two and point 11 in your board. Once you have successfully constructed the prime to prevent the activity of your opponent, your competitor doesn’t even get to toss the dice, that means you move your pieces and toss the dice again. You will win the game for sure.

The Back Game Tactic

The goals of the Back Game technique and the Blocking Game tactic are very similar – to hinder your opponent’s positions hoping to improve your odds of succeeding, however the Back Game technique relies on seperate techniques to achieve that. The Back Game tactic is often employed when you’re far behind your opponent. To play Backgammon with this technique, you have to control two or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This plan is more difficult than others to play in Backgammon seeing as it requires careful movement of your pieces and how the chips are moved is partly the outcome of the dice toss.