The Essential Facts of Backgammon Tactics – Part 2
Posted in Backgammon on 06/21/2026 07:25 am by Madisyn
As we dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a game of skill and pure luck. The aim is to move your chips safely around the game board to your inside board while at the same time your opposition shifts their chips toward their inside board in the opposite direction. With competing player pieces heading in opposing directions there is going to be conflict and the requirement for particular strategies at particular instances. Here are the two final Backgammon plans to round out your game.
The Priming Game Tactic
If the aim of the blocking plan is to hamper the opponents ability to move her pieces, the Priming Game plan is to absolutely barricade any activity of the opposing player by assembling a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s checkers will either get hit, or result a battered position if he/she at all attempts to leave the wall. The ambush of the prime can be built anywhere between point two and point eleven in your board. After you have successfully assembled the prime to prevent the movement of the opponent, your opponent doesn’t even get a chance to toss the dice, that means you shift your checkers and toss the dice yet again. You’ll win the game for sure.
The Back Game Technique
The goals of the Back Game tactic and the Blocking Game tactic are similar – to harm your competitor’s positions in hope to boost your chances of winning, however the Back Game plan uses different techniques to achieve that. The Back Game tactic is generally used when you are far behind your opponent. To play Backgammon with this tactic, you need to hold 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This tactic is more complex than others to play in Backgammon seeing as it needs careful movement of your chips and how the checkers are relocated is partly the result of the dice toss.