The Essential Basics of Backgammon Game Plans – Part Two
Friday, 28. November 2025
As we have dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a game of talent and luck. The goal is to shift your pieces safely around the game board to your inside board and at the same time your opponent moves their pieces toward their inside board in the opposite direction. With competing player pieces moving in opposite directions there is bound to be conflict and the requirement for specific techniques at particular times. Here are the two final Backgammon strategies to complete your game.
The Priming Game Strategy
If the aim of the blocking strategy is to slow down the opponent to shift his checkers, the Priming Game tactic is to completely block any activity of the opponent by assembling a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s pieces will either get bumped, or result a battered position if he ever tries to escape the wall. The trap of the prime can be setup anywhere between point 2 and point 11 in your half of the board. As soon as you have successfully built the prime to block the movement of the competitor, the competitor doesn’t even get to roll the dice, that means you shift your checkers and toss the dice yet again. You’ll win the game for sure.
The Back Game Technique
The objectives of the Back Game plan and the Blocking Game tactic are similar – to hinder your opponent’s positions in hope to improve your chances of winning, however the Back Game strategy relies on different tactics to do that. The Back Game tactic is often used when you are far behind your opponent. To compete in Backgammon with this strategy, you have 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 needs careful movement of your checkers and how the checkers are relocated is partly the outcome of the dice toss.
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