The Essential Facts of Backgammon Strategies – Part Two
Posted in Backgammon on 06/06/2026 03:25 am by Madisyn
As we dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a casino game of talent and luck. The goal is to shift your chips safely around the board to your inner board and at the same time your opponent shifts their checkers toward their home board in the opposing direction. With opposing player chips moving in opposite directions there is going to be conflict and the need for particular techniques at particular instances. Here are the last 2 Backgammon strategies to finish off your game.
The Priming Game Plan
If the purpose of the blocking plan is to slow down the opponent to shift her checkers, the Priming Game tactic is to absolutely stop any movement of the opposing player by assembling a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s chips will either get bumped, or result a bad position if he/she at all attempts to escape the wall. The ambush of the prime can be built anywhere between point 2 and point eleven in your half of the board. After you’ve successfully built the prime to block the activity of the competitor, the opponent doesn’t even get a chance to toss the dice, that means you shift your checkers and toss the dice again. You will win the game for sure.
The Back Game Strategy
The goals of the Back Game plan and the Blocking Game plan are similar – to hinder your opponent’s positions with hope to improve your odds of succeeding, but the Back Game strategy uses different techniques to do that. The Back Game plan is often employed when you are far behind your opponent. To participate in Backgammon with this strategy, you need to control 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single piece) late in the game. This technique is more challenging than others to use in Backgammon seeing as it needs careful movement of your pieces and how the chips are moved is partially the outcome of the dice roll.