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As we dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a game of skill and good luck. The aim is to shift your pieces carefully around the game board to your home board while at the same time your opposing player moves their checkers toward their inside board in the opposing direction. With opposing player checkers heading in opposing directions there is bound to be conflict and the requirement for particular techniques at specific instances. Here are the last two Backgammon strategies to complete your game.

The Priming Game Strategy

If the purpose of the blocking tactic is to slow down the opponent to move his checkers, the Priming Game tactic is to absolutely barricade any activity of the opposing player 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 at all attempts to escape the wall. The ambush of the prime can be established anywhere between point 2 and point eleven in your board. Once you’ve successfully constructed the prime to stop the movement of your opponent, the opponent does not even get a chance to roll the dice, that means you move your checkers and roll the dice again. You’ll be a winner for sure.

The Back Game Technique

The aims of the Back Game technique and the Blocking Game tactic are very similar – to hinder your competitor’s positions in hope to better your chances of winning, but the Back Game technique relies on alternate tactics to do that. The Back Game strategy is commonly employed when you’re far behind your opponent. To play Backgammon with this strategy, you have to control two or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This strategy is more challenging than others to use in Backgammon because it needs careful movement of your chips and how the checkers are moved is partly the result of the dice roll.