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As we have dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a casino game of skill and pure luck. The aim is to move your chips carefully around the board to your home board while at the same time your opponent shifts their checkers toward their inner board in the opposite direction. With opposing player chips moving in opposing directions there is going to be conflict and the need for specific tactics at specific times. Here are the last two Backgammon tactics to round out your game.

The Priming Game Plan

If the goal of the blocking tactic is to hamper the opponents ability to shift her checkers, the Priming Game plan is to completely block any activity of the opponent by assembling a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s chips will either get hit, or end up in a bad position if she at all tries to leave the wall. The trap of the prime can be established anywhere between point two and point 11 in your half of the board. As soon as you’ve successfully constructed the prime to block the movement of the opponent, the competitor doesn’t even get a chance to roll the dice, and you move your checkers and roll the dice yet again. You’ll be a winner for sure.

The Back Game Technique

The objectives of the Back Game technique and the Blocking Game strategy are very similar – to hinder your competitor’s positions hoping to improve your chances of succeeding, but the Back Game tactic utilizes alternate tactics to do that. The Back Game technique is frequently utilized when you’re far behind your opponent. To play Backgammon with this technique, you have to control two or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single checker) late in the game. This technique is more difficult than others to play in Backgammon because it needs careful movement of your checkers and how the chips are relocated is partly the result of the dice roll.