As we have dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a game of talent and pure luck. The goal is to shift your checkers carefully around the game board to your home board while at the same time your opponent moves their pieces toward their home board in the opposing direction. With competing player pieces heading in opposing directions there is going to be conflict and the need for particular strategies at specific instances. Here are the last 2 Backgammon tactics to complete your game.

The Priming Game Plan

If the goal of the blocking tactic is to slow down the opponent to move his checkers, the Priming Game plan is to absolutely barricade any movement of the opponent by building a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s chips will either get hit, or result a battered position if she at all tries to leave the wall. The ambush of the prime can be setup anyplace between point 2 and point eleven in your board. Once you have successfully built the prime to prevent the movement of the opponent, the opponent does not even get a chance to toss the dice, that means you move your pieces and roll the dice yet again. You will be a winner for sure.

The Back Game Technique

The goals of the Back Game strategy and the Blocking Game strategy are very similar – to hurt your competitor’s positions in hope to improve your odds of succeeding, but the Back Game plan uses different techniques to do that. The Back Game plan is commonly employed when you are far behind your opponent. To participate in Backgammon with this tactic, you need to control two or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single piece) late in the game. This plan is more difficult than others to play in Backgammon because it needs careful movement of your checkers and how the chips are moved is partly the outcome of the dice roll.