The Essential Basics of Backgammon Strategies – Part 2
Posted in Backgammon on 12/09/2025 08:25 am by Jillian
As we dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a game of talent and pure luck. The goal is to shift your chips carefully around the game board to your home board and at the same time your opposing player shifts their pieces toward their inner board in the opposite direction. With opposing player chips heading in opposing directions there is going to be conflict and the need for specific tactics at specific times. Here are the 2 final Backgammon strategies to finish off your game.
The Priming Game Strategy
If the aim of the blocking strategy is to slow down the opponent to shift their checkers, the Priming Game tactic is to absolutely block any movement of the opposing player by constructing a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s pieces will either get bumped, or end up in a bad position if she ever tries to leave the wall. The trap of the prime can be built anywhere between point two and point eleven in your board. As soon as you have successfully constructed the prime to stop the activity of your competitor, your opponent does not even get to toss the dice, that means you move your chips and toss the dice yet again. You’ll be a winner for sure.
The Back Game Plan
The objectives of the Back Game tactic and the Blocking Game technique are very similar – to harm your competitor’s positions hoping to improve your chances of winning, however the Back Game plan uses different techniques to do that. The Back Game tactic is frequently employed when you’re far behind your competitor. To participate in Backgammon with this strategy, you have to control two or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single checker) late in the game. This strategy is more difficult than others to use in Backgammon seeing as it requires careful movement of your chips and how the chips are relocated is partially the outcome of the dice toss.