The Essential Details of Backgammon Game Plans – Part Two
Posted in Backgammon on 07/31/2026 11:25 am by Madisyn
As we dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a casino game of skill and pure luck. The goal is to shift your checkers carefully around the board to your inside board and at the same time your opposing player moves their chips toward their home board in the opposing direction. With opposing player chips moving in opposing directions there is going to be conflict and the need for particular strategies at specific instances. Here are the two final Backgammon techniques to complete your game.
The Priming Game Strategy
If the purpose of the blocking tactic is to hamper the opponents ability to shift his checkers, the Priming Game strategy is to absolutely stop any activity of the opposing player by building a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s pieces will either get bumped, or end up in a battered position if he/she ever tries to escape the wall. The trap of the prime can be setup anyplace between point two and point 11 in your board. As soon as you have successfully constructed the prime to block the movement of your opponent, your competitor doesn’t even get to toss the dice, that means you move your pieces and roll the dice yet again. You’ll win the game for sure.
The Back Game Strategy
The goals of the Back Game tactic and the Blocking Game technique are similar – to harm your opponent’s positions in hope to better your odds of succeeding, however the Back Game technique utilizes different tactics to achieve that. The Back Game plan is generally used when you are far behind your competitor. To play Backgammon with this technique, you have to control two or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single piece) late in the game. This strategy is more challenging than others to use in Backgammon because it needs careful movement of your pieces and how the chips are moved is partially the result of the dice roll.