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As we have dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a game of talent and pure luck. The goal is to shift your chips carefully around the board to your inside board and at the same time your opposing player shifts their pieces toward their inner board in the opposite direction. With opposing player chips heading in opposite directions there is going to be conflict and the need for particular tactics at particular instances. Here are the 2 final Backgammon tactics to round out your game.

The Priming Game Plan

If the goal of the blocking strategy is to slow down the opponent to move their chips, the Priming Game plan is to absolutely barricade any activity of the opponent by constructing a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s checkers will either get bumped, or end up in a damaged position if he ever attempts to leave the wall. The trap of the prime can be established anyplace between point 2 and point eleven in your board. Once you have successfully constructed the prime to prevent the movement of the competitor, your opponent doesn’t even get to roll the dice, that means you shift your checkers and toss the dice yet again. You will be a winner for sure.

The Back Game Tactic

The goals of the Back Game strategy and the Blocking Game tactic are very similar – to harm your competitor’s positions with hope to boost your odds of succeeding, however the Back Game tactic utilizes seperate tactics to do that. The Back Game technique is often employed when you’re far behind your competitor. To play Backgammon with this technique, you have to hold 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single checker) late in the game. This tactic is more complex than others to use in Backgammon because it requires careful movement of your checkers and how the chips are moved is partly the result of the dice toss.