As we dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a casino game of skill and luck. The aim is to move your checkers safely around the game board to your home board while at the same time your opposing player shifts their chips toward their inside board in the opposite direction. With competing player pieces heading in opposite directions there is bound to be conflict and the requirement for specific strategies at specific times. Here are the 2 final Backgammon tactics to round out your game.

The Priming Game Strategy

If the goal of the blocking strategy is to hamper the opponents ability to move her chips, the Priming Game plan is to completely barricade any activity of the opposing player by assembling a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s pieces will either get hit, or result a battered position if he/she at all tries to escape the wall. The ambush of the prime can be built anyplace between point two and point eleven in your board. After you have successfully built the prime to stop the activity of your competitor, the competitor doesn’t even get to roll the dice, and you shift your chips and toss the dice yet again. You will be a winner for sure.

The Back Game Tactic

The objectives of the Back Game technique and the Blocking Game tactic are very similar – to harm your competitor’s positions hoping to better your odds of winning, however the Back Game plan uses different tactics to do that. The Back Game tactic is often employed when you’re far behind your opponent. To play Backgammon with this plan, you have to hold 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 seeing as it requires careful movement of your chips and how the chips are moved is partly the result of the dice toss.