Posted by Darien | Posted in Backgammon | Posted on 28-09-2025
As we have dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a game of talent and pure luck. The aim is to shift your chips safely around the board to your home board while at the same time your opponent shifts their checkers toward their inner board in the opposing direction. With competing player checkers moving in opposite directions there is bound to be conflict and the requirement for specific strategies at particular instances. Here are the last two Backgammon strategies to finish off your game.
The Priming Game Tactic
If the goal of the blocking plan is to hamper the opponents ability to shift her checkers, the Priming Game plan is to completely block any movement of the opposing player by constructing a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s checkers will either get bumped, or end up in a battered position if he ever tries to escape the wall. The trap of the prime can be built anywhere between point 2 and point eleven in your board. Once you’ve successfully constructed the prime to prevent the activity of the opponent, your opponent does not even get a chance to toss the dice, and you move your checkers and roll the dice again. You’ll be a winner for sure.
The Back Game Strategy
The aims of the Back Game technique and the Blocking Game strategy are very similar – to hinder your competitor’s positions in hope to improve your chances of succeeding, but the Back Game strategy utilizes alternate techniques to do that. The Back Game technique is generally utilized when you are far behind your opponent. To participate in 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 challenging than others to use in Backgammon because it needs careful movement of your chips and how the pieces are relocated is partially the outcome of the dice toss.