The Basics of Backgammon Strategies – Part Two
Posted in Backgammon on 03/25/2025 05:25 pm by Jillian
As we have dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a game of skill and pure luck. The goal is to move your pieces safely around the board to your home board while at the same time your opponent moves their chips toward their inside board in the opposite direction. With opposing player checkers moving in opposite directions there is bound to be conflict and the requirement for particular techniques at specific instances. Here are the two final Backgammon tactics to finish off your game.
The Priming Game Tactic
If the goal of the blocking tactic is to hamper the opponents ability to shift his checkers, the Priming Game tactic is to completely barricade any activity of the opponent by creating a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s chips will either get hit, or end up in a bad position if she ever tries to escape the wall. The trap of the prime can be setup anyplace between point two and point 11 in your half of the board. As soon as you have successfully built the prime to block the movement of your competitor, the opponent does not even get a chance to roll the dice, and you shift your pieces and roll the dice again. You’ll win the game for sure.
The Back Game Strategy
The objectives of the Back Game strategy and the Blocking Game tactic are similar – to hurt your opponent’s positions with hope to better your odds of succeeding, but the Back Game strategy uses alternate tactics to do that. The Back Game plan is generally used when you are far behind your competitor. To participate in Backgammon with this technique, you have to hold two or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This technique is more difficult than others to use in Backgammon because it requires careful movement of your chips and how the chips are moved is partly the result of the dice toss.