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As we have dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a game of skill and luck. The aim is to shift your chips safely around the game board to your home board and at the same time your opponent moves their checkers toward their inside board in the opposing direction. With opposing player chips heading in opposite directions there is going to be conflict and the requirement for particular tactics at particular instances. Here are the 2 final Backgammon techniques to round out your game.

The Priming Game Tactic

If the goal of the blocking strategy is to slow down the opponent to shift her pieces, the Priming Game strategy is to absolutely barricade any movement of the opposing player by assembling a prime - ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent's chips will either get bumped, or end up in a battered position if he/she ever tries to escape the wall. The trap of the prime can be setup anyplace between point 2 and point 11 in your game board. After you have successfully constructed the prime to prevent the movement of your competitor, your opponent does not even get to roll the dice, and you shift your checkers and roll the dice again. You will be a winner for sure.

The Back Game Tactic

The aims of the Back Game strategy and the Blocking Game strategy are very similar - to harm your competitor's positions hoping to better your chances of winning, however the Back Game tactic uses different techniques to do that. The Back Game tactic is often utilized when you are 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 strategy is more difficult than others to employ in Backgammon seeing as it requires careful movement of your checkers and how the pieces are moved is partly the result of the dice roll.