As we have dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a game of talent and good luck. The aim is to shift your checkers safely around the board to your home board and at the same time your opposition moves their chips toward their inside board in the opposite direction. With opposing player checkers heading in opposing directions there is bound to be conflict and the need for specific techniques at specific times. Here are the two final Backgammon techniques to round out your game.

The Priming Game Strategy

If the goal of the blocking tactic is to slow down the opponent to shift their checkers, the Priming Game strategy is to absolutely block any movement of the opposing player by building a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s chips will either get bumped, or result a battered position if he/she ever tries to leave the wall. The ambush of the prime can be setup anyplace between point two and point eleven in your half of the board. Once you’ve successfully built the prime to prevent the movement of the competitor, your competitor doesn’t even get to toss the dice, and you shift your pieces and roll the dice again. You will be a winner for sure.

The Back Game Technique

The goals of the Back Game tactic and the Blocking Game tactic are very similar – to harm your opponent’s positions with hope to improve your odds of winning, however the Back Game technique uses alternate tactics to achieve that. The Back Game strategy is commonly employed when you are far behind your competitor. To participate in Backgammon with this plan, you need to hold 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This strategy is more difficult than others to play in Backgammon because it requires careful movement of your checkers and how the chips are relocated is partly the outcome of the dice roll.