As we dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a casino game of skill and pure luck. The aim is to shift your checkers carefully around the game board to your inner board while at the same time your opponent shifts their checkers toward their inside board in the opposing direction. With competing player checkers shifting in opposite directions there is bound to be conflict and the requirement for particular tactics at specific times. Here are the 2 final Backgammon tactics to round out your game.

The Priming Game Plan

If the goal of the blocking tactic is to hamper the opponents ability to move his checkers, the Priming Game plan is to completely barricade any movement of the opposing player by creating a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s pieces will either get bumped, or end up in a battered position if she ever attempts to escape the wall. The trap of the prime can be built anyplace between point 2 and point 11 in your board. After you have successfully assembled the prime to prevent the movement of the opponent, your opponent does not even get to toss the dice, and you shift your chips and roll the dice yet again. You will win the game for sure.

The Back Game Technique

The objectives of the Back Game plan and the Blocking Game technique are similar – to hinder your opponent’s positions hoping to boost your odds of succeeding, however the Back Game strategy utilizes different techniques to achieve that. The Back Game plan is generally used when you are far behind your competitor. To compete in Backgammon with this tactic, you have to control 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This strategy is more difficult than others to employ in Backgammon because it needs careful movement of your pieces and how the chips are moved is partially the outcome of the dice toss.