The Basics of Backgammon Strategies – Part Two
Posted in Backgammon on 07/21/2026 05:25 pm by Madisyn
As we have dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a casino game of ability and luck. The goal is to move your pieces carefully around the board to your home board while at the same time your opposing player moves their chips toward their home board in the opposite direction. With opposing player chips shifting in opposing directions there is bound to be conflict and the requirement for particular tactics at specific times. Here are the 2 final Backgammon plans to finish off your game.
The Priming Game Strategy
If the purpose of the blocking strategy is to hamper the opponents ability to move his checkers, the Priming Game plan is to completely stop any activity of the opposing player by constructing a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s pieces will either get hit, or end up in a battered position if he at all tries to leave the wall. The ambush of the prime can be setup anyplace between point 2 and point eleven in your game board. After you have successfully built the prime to stop the activity of your competitor, your competitor doesn’t even get to roll the dice, and you move your checkers and toss the dice again. You will win the game for sure.
The Back Game Plan
The objectives of the Back Game tactic and the Blocking Game technique are similar – to harm your competitor’s positions in hope to improve your chances of winning, however the Back Game technique uses seperate techniques to do that. The Back Game tactic is commonly utilized when you’re far behind your competitor. To compete in Backgammon with this strategy, you have to control 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single checker) late in the game. This tactic is more difficult than others to employ in Backgammon seeing as it requires careful movement of your pieces and how the pieces are moved is partially the result of the dice toss.