As we dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a game of ability and luck. The goal is to shift your chips carefully around the game board to your inside board while at the same time your opponent shifts their chips toward their inner board in the opposite direction. With opposing player checkers shifting in opposite directions there is going to be conflict and the need for particular techniques at specific instances. Here are the last 2 Backgammon techniques to complete your game.

The Priming Game Plan

If the purpose of the blocking strategy is to slow down the opponent to shift their chips, the Priming Game plan is to absolutely barricade any activity of the opponent by creating a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s chips will either get bumped, or result a battered position if she at all attempts to leave the wall. The ambush of the prime can be setup anyplace between point two and point 11 in your game board. As soon as you have successfully assembled the prime to block the movement of your opponent, the competitor does not even get a chance to roll the dice, and 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 tactic and the Blocking Game strategy are very similar – to hinder your competitor’s positions in hope to better your chances of succeeding, but the Back Game plan relies on different tactics to achieve that. The Back Game strategy is commonly used when you’re far behind your competitor. To compete in Backgammon with this plan, you need to control 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 because it needs careful movement of your checkers and how the chips are relocated is partially the result of the dice toss.