The Basics of Backgammon Strategies – Part 2
Sunday, 19. July 2026
As we have dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a game of skill and pure luck. The aim is to move your pieces safely around the board to your home board while at the same time your opponent shifts their checkers toward their inside board in the opposite direction. With opposing player checkers moving in opposing directions there is bound to be conflict and the need for particular techniques at particular instances. Here are the 2 final Backgammon techniques to complete your game.
The Priming Game Tactic
If the goal of the blocking plan is to slow down the opponent to shift her pieces, the Priming Game plan is to completely barricade any movement of the opponent by building a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s chips will either get hit, or end up in a battered position if she ever tries to escape the wall. The ambush of the prime can be built anyplace between point 2 and point eleven in your game board. After you’ve successfully built the prime to stop the activity of the opponent, the opponent does not even get a chance to roll the dice, that means you move your chips and toss the dice again. You will be a winner for sure.
The Back Game Strategy
The objectives of the Back Game plan and the Blocking Game technique are similar – to hinder your opponent’s positions with hope to improve your odds of winning, however the Back Game technique uses seperate tactics to do that. The Back Game plan is often employed when you are far behind your competitor. To play Backgammon with this tactic, you need to hold 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This technique is more difficult than others to employ in Backgammon seeing as it requires careful movement of your checkers and how the pieces are relocated is partly the outcome of the dice toss.
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