The Essential Facts of Backgammon Tactics – Part 2
Posted in Backgammon on 03/21/2026 11:25 am by Madisyn
As we have dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a game of skill and pure luck. The goal is to shift your checkers safely around the game board to your inner board while at the same time your opponent shifts their checkers toward their inner board in the opposing direction. With opposing player checkers heading in opposing directions there is bound to be conflict and the need for specific strategies at particular instances. Here are the 2 final Backgammon techniques to complete your game.
The Priming Game Strategy
If the goal of the blocking tactic is to hamper the opponents ability to shift their chips, the Priming Game strategy is to absolutely barricade any activity of the opponent by assembling a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s pieces will either get bumped, or end up in a damaged position if he ever attempts to leave the wall. The ambush of the prime can be established anywhere between point two and point eleven in your board. After you’ve successfully built the prime to stop the movement of your competitor, your opponent doesn’t even get a chance to toss the dice, that means you move your pieces and roll the dice yet again. You’ll win the game for sure.
The Back Game Strategy
The goals of the Back Game strategy and the Blocking Game technique are very similar – to hinder your opponent’s positions in hope to boost your odds of succeeding, but the Back Game technique relies on alternate tactics to do that. The Back Game plan is frequently utilized when you’re far behind your opponent. To play Backgammon with this strategy, you have to hold two or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This strategy is more complex than others to use in Backgammon seeing as it needs careful movement of your chips and how the chips are relocated is partly the result of the dice toss.