The Basics of Backgammon Strategies – Part 2
Thursday, 16. July 2026
As we have dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a game of skill and pure luck. The goal is to shift your pieces carefully around the game board to your inside board while at the same time your opposing player shifts their pieces toward their home board in the opposite direction. With competing player chips heading in opposite directions there is bound to be conflict and the need for particular strategies at particular instances. Here are the two final Backgammon strategies to finish off your game.
The Priming Game Tactic
If the purpose of the blocking strategy is to hamper the opponents ability to shift their pieces, the Priming Game strategy is to completely barricade any movement of the opponent by creating a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s chips will either get hit, or end up in a bad position if she ever attempts to leave the wall. The trap of the prime can be built anywhere between point 2 and point 11 in your half of the board. After you have successfully built the prime to block the activity of your competitor, your competitor doesn’t even get a chance to toss the dice, that means you shift your checkers and roll the dice yet again. You will be a winner for sure.
The Back Game Plan
The objectives of the Back Game plan and the Blocking Game tactic are very similar – to hinder your opponent’s positions with hope to better your chances of succeeding, however the Back Game technique uses seperate techniques to do that. The Back Game plan is frequently employed when you’re far behind your competitor. To play Backgammon with this strategy, you have to hold 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single checker) late in the game. This plan is more complex than others to use in Backgammon seeing as it needs careful movement of your chips and how the pieces are relocated is partly the result of the dice roll.
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