As we have dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a casino game of skill and luck. The aim is to move your pieces safely around the board to your home board while at the same time your opposition shifts their checkers toward their home board in the opposing direction. With competing player pieces shifting in opposing directions there is going to be conflict and the need for specific tactics at particular times. Here are the last 2 Backgammon techniques to round out your game.

The Priming Game Tactic

If the goal of the blocking plan is to hamper the opponents ability to shift her pieces, the Priming Game plan is to completely stop any movement of the opposing player by creating a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s checkers will either get bumped, or end up in a battered position if she at all attempts to escape the wall. The ambush of the prime can be built anywhere between point 2 and point eleven in your half of the board. As soon as you’ve successfully built the prime to block the activity of your opponent, the opponent doesn’t even get a chance to roll the dice, that means you move your chips and toss the dice yet again. You will win the game for sure.

The Back Game Tactic

The aims of the Back Game strategy and the Blocking Game strategy are similar – to hinder your competitor’s positions hoping to better your chances of succeeding, however the Back Game plan uses seperate tactics to achieve that. The Back Game plan is commonly employed when you are far behind your opponent. To play Backgammon with this tactic, you need to hold 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This tactic is more difficult than others to use in Backgammon seeing as it needs careful movement of your chips and how the pieces are relocated is partially the outcome of the dice roll.