The Essential Details of Backgammon Game Plans – Part 2
Posted in Backgammon on 06/06/2026 03:25 pm by Jillian
As we dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a game of talent and luck. The aim is to move your pieces carefully around the board to your home board while at the same time your opposing player moves their chips toward their home board in the opposing direction. With opposing player pieces heading in opposite directions there is bound to be conflict and the requirement for specific tactics at specific times. Here are the 2 final Backgammon tactics to finish off your game.
The Priming Game Strategy
If the goal of the blocking strategy is to slow down the opponent to shift his checkers, the Priming Game strategy is to absolutely block any activity of the opposing player by constructing a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’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 setup anywhere between point two and point 11 in your board. As soon as you’ve successfully built the prime to stop the activity of the competitor, the competitor doesn’t even get to roll the dice, and you shift your chips and roll the dice again. You will be a winner for sure.
The Back Game Technique
The goals of the Back Game plan and the Blocking Game tactic are very similar – to harm your opponent’s positions with hope to improve your odds of winning, however the Back Game tactic relies on seperate tactics to do that. The Back Game plan is commonly employed when you are far behind your competitor. To play Backgammon with this plan, you need to control 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single piece) late in the game. This tactic is more complex than others to play in Backgammon seeing as it requires careful movement of your pieces and how the checkers are relocated is partially the outcome of the dice toss.