The Essential Facts of Backgammon Strategies – Part 2
Thursday, 6. November 2025
As we have dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a game of skill and luck. The aim is to shift your pieces carefully around the game board to your inner board and at the same time your opponent shifts their chips toward their home board in the opposite direction. With opposing player chips shifting in opposing directions there is going to be conflict and the need for specific techniques at particular instances. Here are the last two Backgammon tactics to complete your game.
The Priming Game Tactic
If the goal of the blocking tactic is to slow down the opponent to shift his checkers, the Priming Game strategy is to completely block any activity of the opposing player by constructing a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s pieces will either get bumped, or end up in a damaged position if he/she ever attempts to escape the wall. The ambush of the prime can be setup anyplace between point two and point 11 in your half of the board. After you’ve successfully built the prime to prevent the activity of the competitor, your competitor doesn’t even get to toss the dice, and you shift your checkers and roll the dice again. You’ll be a winner for sure.
The Back Game Technique
The objectives of the Back Game tactic and the Blocking Game technique are very similar – to hinder your opponent’s positions hoping to better your chances of succeeding, however the Back Game tactic relies on alternate tactics to do that. The Back Game tactic is frequently used when you’re far behind your competitor. To compete in Backgammon with this tactic, you need to control two or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This plan is more challenging than others to play in Backgammon seeing as it requires careful movement of your pieces and how the chips are moved is partially the result of the dice roll.
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