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As we have dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a game of talent and good luck. The aim is to shift your pieces safely around the board to your inside board and at the same time your opposition moves their chips toward their inside board in the opposing direction. With opposing player pieces heading in opposing directions there is bound to be conflict and the need for particular strategies at specific instances. Here are the 2 final Backgammon tactics to finish off your game.

The Priming Game Strategy

If the purpose of the blocking plan is to slow down the opponent to move her checkers, the Priming Game tactic is to absolutely barricade any movement of the opposing player by creating a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s pieces will either get hit, or result a battered position if he/she at all tries to leave the wall. The ambush of the prime can be established anywhere between point 2 and point 11 in your half of the board. As soon as you have successfully assembled the prime to block the movement of the opponent, your competitor does not even get to toss the dice, that means you shift your pieces and toss the dice yet again. You will win the game for sure.

The Back Game Tactic

The aims of the Back Game tactic and the Blocking Game strategy are very similar – to hurt your opponent’s positions with hope to improve your odds of succeeding, but the Back Game strategy relies on seperate tactics to do that. The Back Game tactic is commonly used when you’re far behind your competitor. To play Backgammon with this strategy, you have to control two or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single checker) late in the game. This plan is more complex than others to play in Backgammon seeing as it needs careful movement of your pieces and how the pieces are moved is partly the result of the dice roll.