As we dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a casino game of ability and good luck. The goal is to shift your checkers safely around the game board to your inner board while at the same time your opposition moves their chips toward their inside board in the opposite direction. With competing player chips shifting in opposing directions there is bound to be conflict and the need for particular techniques 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 strategy is to slow down the opponent to move her pieces, the Priming Game tactic is to completely barricade any activity of the opponent by creating a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s chips will either get hit, or result a battered position if he/she ever tries to leave the wall. The ambush of the prime can be built anywhere between point two and point eleven in your board. As soon as you have successfully constructed the prime to prevent the movement of the competitor, the competitor doesn’t even get to toss the dice, that means you shift your chips and roll the dice again. You’ll win the game for sure.

The Back Game Tactic

The aims of the Back Game plan and the Blocking Game plan are similar – to hurt your opponent’s positions in hope to improve your odds of succeeding, but the Back Game tactic relies on alternate techniques to do that. The Back Game technique is generally employed when you are far behind your competitor. 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 technique is more difficult than others to play in Backgammon seeing as it requires careful movement of your checkers and how the chips are relocated is partly the result of the dice toss.