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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 game board to your home board while at the same time your opponent shifts their pieces toward their inside board in the opposite direction. With opposing player checkers moving in opposite directions there is bound to be conflict and the need for specific strategies at particular instances. Here are the two final Backgammon techniques to round out your game.

The Priming Game Plan

If the aim of the blocking plan is to slow down the opponent to move their checkers, the Priming Game strategy is to completely stop any activity of the opposing player by building a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s pieces will either get bumped, or result a bad position if he/she at all tries to escape the wall. The ambush of the prime can be setup anyplace between point 2 and point eleven in your game board. Once you have successfully built the prime to prevent the activity of the competitor, your opponent does not even get to toss 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 technique and the Blocking Game technique are similar – to harm your competitor’s positions hoping to improve your chances of winning, but the Back Game tactic uses seperate techniques to achieve that. The Back Game tactic is commonly employed when you are far behind your competitor. To play Backgammon with this technique, you have to hold two or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This strategy is more complex than others to use in Backgammon seeing as it requires careful movement of your pieces and how the chips are relocated is partially the outcome of the dice roll.