The Essential Facts of Backgammon Game Plans – Part Two
Posted in Backgammon on 04/30/2026 05:25 pm by Madisyn
As we dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a game of skill and pure luck. The aim is to shift your pieces carefully around the game board to your inner board and at the same time your opposition moves their checkers toward their inside board in the opposing direction. With opposing player chips heading in opposing directions there is going to be conflict and the need for particular tactics at particular times. Here are the last 2 Backgammon techniques to complete your game.
The Priming Game Strategy
If the aim of the blocking tactic is to hamper the opponents ability to shift his checkers, the Priming Game strategy is to absolutely block any movement of the opposing player by creating a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s chips will either get bumped, or end up in a battered position if she at all attempts to escape the wall. The trap of the prime can be setup anyplace between point 2 and point 11 in your board. Once you have successfully built the prime to stop the activity of your opponent, your opponent doesn’t even get a chance to toss the dice, and you move your chips and toss the dice again. You’ll win the game for sure.
The Back Game Tactic
The goals of the Back Game technique and the Blocking Game strategy are similar – to harm your competitor’s positions with hope to improve your chances of succeeding, but the Back Game plan uses seperate techniques to do that. The Back Game technique is generally used when you’re far behind your competitor. To play Backgammon with this strategy, you need to control 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single checker) late in the game. This technique is more challenging than others to use in Backgammon because it requires careful movement of your pieces and how the checkers are relocated is partly the outcome of the dice toss.