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As we have dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a casino game of talent and luck. The aim is to shift your chips carefully around the board to your inner board and at the same time your opposition shifts their checkers toward their home board in the opposite direction. With competing player chips moving in opposing 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 Tactic

If the aim of the blocking plan is to hamper the opponents ability to shift his checkers, the Priming Game tactic is to completely stop any activity of the opponent by building a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s checkers will either get hit, or result a battered position if he/she ever tries to escape the wall. The trap of the prime can be established anywhere between point 2 and point 11 in your board. As soon as you’ve successfully assembled the prime to block the activity of your competitor, the opponent does not even get a chance to toss the dice, that means 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 tactic and the Blocking Game technique are similar – to hurt your competitor’s positions hoping to improve your odds of succeeding, but the Back Game technique uses seperate tactics to do that. The Back Game plan is often used when you’re far behind your opponent. To compete in Backgammon with this strategy, you need to hold two or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single piece) late in the game. This technique is more difficult than others to use in Backgammon seeing as it requires careful movement of your pieces and how the chips are relocated is partly the outcome of the dice roll.