The Essential Basics of Backgammon Strategies – Part Two
Wednesday, 15. April 2026
As we dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a casino game of talent and luck. The goal is to move your chips carefully around the game board to your inner board and at the same time your opposing player shifts their pieces toward their home board in the opposing direction. With opposing player checkers heading in opposite directions there is going to be conflict and the need for specific techniques at specific times. Here are the two final Backgammon plans to complete your game.
The Priming Game Strategy
If the goal of the blocking plan is to hamper the opponents ability to shift their pieces, the Priming Game plan is to completely block any movement of the opposing player by creating a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s chips will either get bumped, or result a battered position if he/she at all tries to leave the wall. The trap of the prime can be established anyplace between point 2 and point 11 in your half of the board. Once you’ve successfully assembled the prime to prevent the movement of your opponent, the competitor does not even get a chance to toss the dice, that means you move your pieces and roll the dice yet again. You will win the game for sure.
The Back Game Tactic
The aims of the Back Game tactic and the Blocking Game strategy are very similar – to hurt your opponent’s positions hoping to better your chances of succeeding, however the Back Game technique utilizes seperate tactics to achieve that. The Back Game technique is frequently employed when you’re far behind your competitor. To compete in Backgammon with this technique, you have to hold 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single piece) late in the game. This tactic is more challenging than others to use in Backgammon because it needs careful movement of your pieces and how the pieces are moved is partially the result of the dice roll.
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