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As we dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a game of skill and good luck. The aim is to move your pieces safely around the game board to your inside board while at the same time your opposition shifts their checkers toward their inner board in the opposite direction. With opposing player pieces heading in opposing directions there is going to be conflict and the need for specific tactics at specific times. Here are the 2 final Backgammon techniques to round out your game.

The Priming Game Tactic

If the purpose of the blocking strategy is to slow down the opponent to shift her chips, the Priming Game strategy is to completely barricade any movement of the opposing player by creating a prime - ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor's checkers will either get bumped, or end up in a battered position if he ever tries to escape the wall. The ambush of the prime can be established anywhere between point 2 and point 11 in your half of the board. After you've successfully assembled the prime to prevent the activity of your opponent, your competitor does not even get a chance to roll the dice, and you move your pieces and toss the dice yet again. You'll be a winner for sure.

The Back Game Strategy

The goals of the Back Game strategy and the Blocking Game technique are similar - to harm your competitor's positions with hope to better your odds of succeeding, but the Back Game tactic uses alternate techniques to achieve that. The Back Game technique is often used when you're far behind your competitor. To compete in Backgammon with this technique, you have to control two or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This technique is more complex than others to use in Backgammon because it requires careful movement of your pieces and how the checkers are moved is partly the outcome of the dice roll.