Posted by Darien | Posted in Backgammon | Posted on 13-11-2025
As we have dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a game of talent and luck. The goal is to shift your pieces carefully around the game board to your inner board while at the same time your opponent shifts their pieces toward their home board in the opposing direction. With opposing player pieces shifting in opposing directions there is bound to be conflict and the need for specific techniques at particular times. Here are the last two Backgammon tactics to round out your game.
The Priming Game Strategy
If the aim of the blocking strategy is to hamper the opponents ability to move their checkers, the Priming Game strategy is to absolutely stop any activity of the opponent by creating a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s pieces will either get bumped, or result a battered position if he/she at all tries to escape the wall. The trap of the prime can be built anywhere between point two and point eleven in your half of the board. After you’ve successfully constructed the prime to block the movement of your competitor, your opponent does not even get to roll the dice, and you move your chips and toss the dice again. You’ll win the game for sure.
The Back Game Tactic
The aims of the Back Game plan and the Blocking Game tactic are very similar – to hurt your competitor’s positions hoping to improve your chances of winning, however the Back Game plan relies on seperate tactics to achieve that. The Back Game strategy is often utilized when you are far behind your competitor. To play Backgammon with this technique, you need to hold 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single checker) late in the game. This technique is more challenging than others to play in Backgammon seeing as it needs careful movement of your chips and how the chips are moved is partly the result of the dice toss.