As we have dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a game of skill and pure luck. The goal is to move your chips safely around the board to your home board while at the same time your opposing player moves their pieces toward their inside board in the opposing direction. With competing player chips heading in opposite directions there is bound to be conflict and the need for specific strategies at specific instances. Here are the 2 final Backgammon tactics to complete your game.

The Priming Game Plan

If the goal of the blocking plan is to hamper the opponents ability to move their checkers, the Priming Game strategy is to absolutely block any activity of the opponent by constructing a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s chips will either get hit, or end up in a damaged position if he/she at all tries to leave the wall. The ambush of the prime can be established anywhere between point 2 and point eleven in your board. After you have successfully built the prime to stop the activity of your opponent, your opponent doesn’t even get to toss the dice, that means you move your pieces and toss the dice yet again. You will win the game for sure.

The Back Game Technique

The goals of the Back Game tactic and the Blocking Game strategy are similar – to hinder your competitor’s positions with hope to boost your odds of winning, but the Back Game strategy uses different techniques to achieve that. The Back Game tactic is generally utilized when you’re 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 (a single piece) late in the game. This technique is more difficult than others to use in Backgammon seeing as it requires careful movement of your chips and how the pieces are relocated is partially the result of the dice roll.