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As we 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 while at the same time your opponent shifts their pieces toward their inside board in the opposite direction. With competing player checkers moving in opposite directions there is bound to be conflict and the requirement for particular tactics at specific times. Here are the two final Backgammon tactics to finish off your game.

The Priming Game Plan

If the purpose of the blocking plan is to slow down the opponent to move his pieces, the Priming Game plan is to completely barricade any movement of the opponent by building a prime - ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor's chips will either get bumped, or end up in a bad position if she ever attempts to leave the wall. The trap of the prime can be built anyplace between point two and point 11 in your game board. After you have successfully built the prime to block the activity of your opponent, the competitor does not even get to roll the dice, and you move your chips and toss the dice yet again. You'll be a winner for sure.

The Back Game Plan

The goals of the Back Game tactic and the Blocking Game plan are very similar - to hinder your competitor's positions in hope to better your odds of succeeding, but the Back Game technique utilizes different tactics to do that. The Back Game strategy is generally used when you're far behind your opponent. To compete in Backgammon with this technique, you need to hold two or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This technique is more challenging than others to use in Backgammon seeing as it needs careful movement of your checkers and how the chips are moved is partially the outcome of the dice toss.