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As we have dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a casino game of skill and luck. The goal is to shift your pieces carefully around the game board to your inside board while at the same time your opponent shifts their checkers toward their inside board in the opposing direction. With competing player chips shifting in opposing directions there is bound to be conflict and the need for specific techniques at particular times. Here are the 2 final Backgammon strategies to complete your game.

The Priming Game Tactic

If the purpose of the blocking tactic is to slow down the opponent to move his pieces, the Priming Game strategy is to completely block any movement of the opponent by creating a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s chips will either get bumped, or end up in a battered position if he/she ever tries to escape the wall. The ambush of the prime can be established anywhere between point 2 and point eleven in your board. As soon as you have successfully assembled the prime to stop the movement of your competitor, the competitor does not even get a chance to roll the dice, and you move your chips and roll the dice again. You will win the game for sure.

The Back Game Tactic

The aims of the Back Game strategy and the Blocking Game tactic are similar – to harm your competitor’s positions with hope to improve your chances of winning, however the Back Game strategy relies on alternate tactics to do that. The Back Game tactic is commonly used when you are far behind your opponent. To play Backgammon with this technique, you need to hold 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single piece) late in the game. This tactic is more challenging than others to use in Backgammon seeing as it requires careful movement of your chips and how the checkers are relocated is partially the result of the dice toss.