The Basics of Backgammon Game Plans – Part 2
Posted in Backgammon on 08/31/2025 03:25 am by Madisyn
As we dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a game of talent and pure luck. The goal is to shift your chips carefully around the game board to your inner board and at the same time your opponent moves their checkers toward their home board in the opposite direction. With competing player checkers heading in opposing directions there is bound to be conflict and the requirement for particular strategies at particular instances. Here are the 2 final Backgammon tactics to round out your game.
The Priming Game Strategy
If the aim of the blocking strategy is to hamper the opponents ability to move her checkers, the Priming Game tactic is to absolutely block any activity of the opposing player by building a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s chips will either get hit, or result a bad position if he/she ever tries to escape the wall. The ambush of the prime can be built anywhere between point 2 and point 11 in your half of the board. As soon as you’ve successfully built the prime to prevent the activity of your opponent, your competitor doesn’t even get to roll the dice, and you shift your chips and roll the dice again. You’ll win the game for sure.
The Back Game Tactic
The objectives of the Back Game technique and the Blocking Game technique are very similar – to harm your opponent’s positions with hope to improve your chances of winning, however the Back Game technique uses different tactics to achieve that. The Back Game tactic is commonly utilized when you’re far behind your opponent. To play Backgammon with this strategy, you need to hold 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This plan is more complex than others to use in Backgammon seeing as it requires careful movement of your pieces and how the checkers are relocated is partially the outcome of the dice toss.