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As we dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a casino game of skill and luck. The aim is to shift your pieces safely around the board to your home board while at the same time your opposition shifts their checkers toward their inner board in the opposing direction. With competing player pieces heading in opposite directions there is bound to be conflict and the requirement for specific tactics at particular instances. Here are the two final Backgammon techniques to round out your game.

The Priming Game Tactic

If the goal of the blocking strategy is to hamper the opponents ability to shift his pieces, the Priming Game plan is to absolutely stop any activity of the opponent by building a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s chips will either get bumped, or end up in a battered position if she at all attempts to escape the wall. The ambush of the prime can be setup anywhere between point two and point 11 in your game board. As soon as you have successfully built the prime to stop the movement of your competitor, the opponent does not even get a chance to toss the dice, that means you shift your pieces and toss the dice yet again. You’ll be a winner for sure.

The Back Game Plan

The aims of the Back Game technique and the Blocking Game tactic are similar – to hurt your opponent’s positions with hope to better your odds of succeeding, however the Back Game strategy utilizes alternate techniques to achieve that. The Back Game strategy is frequently utilized when you are far behind your opponent. To participate in Backgammon with this technique, you need to control 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This plan is more complex than others to use in Backgammon because it needs careful movement of your checkers and how the pieces are relocated is partly the result of the dice toss.