The Basics of Backgammon Strategies – Part Two
Posted in Backgammon on 06/18/2025 01:25 am by Madisyn
As we have dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a casino game of skill and pure luck. The aim is to move your chips carefully around the board to your home board while at the same time your opposing player moves their checkers toward their inner board in the opposing direction. With opposing player pieces heading in opposing directions there is bound to be conflict and the need for specific strategies at particular instances. Here are the last two Backgammon strategies to finish off your game.
The Priming Game Strategy
If the purpose of the blocking strategy is to hamper the opponents ability to move their checkers, the Priming Game strategy is to absolutely barricade any movement of the opponent by building a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s pieces will either get hit, or end up in a battered position if she at all tries to leave the wall. The trap of the prime can be established anywhere between point two and point eleven in your game board. Once you have successfully assembled the prime to block the movement of your competitor, your opponent doesn’t even get a chance to toss the dice, that means you shift your checkers and roll the dice yet again. You’ll be a winner for sure.
The Back Game Tactic
The goals of the Back Game plan and the Blocking Game technique are similar – to hinder your opponent’s positions in hope to better your chances of winning, however the Back Game technique utilizes different techniques to achieve that. The Back Game technique is commonly utilized when you’re far behind your competitor. To play Backgammon with this plan, you need to hold 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single checker) late in the game. This strategy is more complex than others to employ in Backgammon because it requires careful movement of your pieces and how the chips are relocated is partially the result of the dice toss.