Posted by Nadia | Posted in Backgammon | Posted on 11-02-2026
As we dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a casino game of skill and good luck. The goal is to shift your chips carefully around the board to your inside board and at the same time your opponent moves their chips toward their inside board in the opposite direction. With opposing player pieces heading in opposite directions there is going to be conflict and the requirement for specific tactics at specific instances. Here are the last 2 Backgammon tactics to round out your game.
The Priming Game Plan
If the goal of the blocking tactic is to hamper the opponents ability to shift her checkers, the Priming Game strategy is to completely barricade any movement of the opposing player by assembling a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s checkers will either get hit, or end up in a damaged position if she ever attempts to leave the wall. The trap of the prime can be built anyplace between point 2 and point eleven in your game board. After you have successfully built the prime to block the activity of the opponent, the competitor doesn’t even get to roll the dice, that means you move your pieces and toss the dice yet again. You will be a winner for sure.
The Back Game Tactic
The goals of the Back Game strategy and the Blocking Game strategy are very similar – to hurt your competitor’s positions in hope to improve your odds of winning, but the Back Game tactic uses seperate techniques to do that. The Back Game tactic is often used when you’re far behind your opponent. To participate in Backgammon with this plan, you have to control 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single piece) late in the game. This plan is more complex than others to use in Backgammon because it requires careful movement of your pieces and how the chips are relocated is partially the result of the dice roll.