The Essential Basics of Backgammon Strategies – Part 2
Posted in Backgammon on 04/02/2026 11:25 am by Madisyn
As we dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a casino game of ability and good luck. The aim is to move your pieces carefully around the game board to your home board while at the same time your opposition shifts their pieces toward their inner board in the opposite direction. With opposing player checkers heading in opposing directions there is bound to be conflict and the requirement for particular strategies at specific times. Here are the last 2 Backgammon techniques to complete your game.
The Priming Game Strategy
If the purpose of the blocking plan is to slow down the opponent to move her chips, the Priming Game plan is to completely barricade any movement of the opposing player by creating a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s chips will either get hit, or result a damaged position if he at all attempts to leave the wall. The ambush of the prime can be setup anyplace between point 2 and point eleven in your game board. Once you have successfully assembled the prime to stop the activity of the opponent, the competitor doesn’t even get a chance to roll the dice, and you shift your pieces and toss the dice again. You will be a winner for sure.
The Back Game Tactic
The goals of the Back Game technique and the Blocking Game strategy are similar – to hinder your competitor’s positions with hope to better your odds of winning, however the Back Game strategy relies on alternate techniques to do that. The Back Game plan is generally utilized when you are far behind your competitor. To participate in Backgammon with this tactic, you have to hold 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single checker) late in the game. This plan is more difficult than others to use in Backgammon because it needs careful movement of your chips and how the checkers are moved is partly the outcome of the dice roll.