The Essential Facts of Backgammon Strategies – Part 2
Posted in Backgammon on 07/04/2025 05:25 pm by Madisyn
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 and at the same time your opponent shifts their checkers toward their inside board in the opposing direction. With competing player chips shifting in opposing directions there is going to be conflict and the need for particular strategies at particular times. Here are the two final Backgammon techniques to complete your game.
The Priming Game Plan
If the goal of the blocking plan is to slow down the opponent to shift their pieces, the Priming Game strategy is to absolutely barricade any movement of the opponent by assembling a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s pieces will either get bumped, or result a damaged position if she ever tries to leave the wall. The trap of the prime can be built anyplace between point two and point eleven in your board. Once you’ve successfully built the prime to prevent the activity of the opponent, your opponent doesn’t even get a chance to roll the dice, that means you move your pieces and toss the dice yet again. You will win the game for sure.
The Back Game Tactic
The goals of the Back Game strategy and the Blocking Game strategy are very similar – to hinder your opponent’s positions in hope to boost your chances of succeeding, however the Back Game plan relies on different techniques to achieve that. The Back Game strategy is often used when you are 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 late in the game. This technique is more difficult than others to employ in Backgammon because it requires careful movement of your chips and how the checkers are relocated is partially the outcome of the dice toss.