Posted by Nadia | Posted in Backgammon | Posted on 02-06-2026
As we dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a game of ability and good luck. The aim is to shift your pieces carefully around the game board to your inside board while at the same time your opponent shifts their pieces toward their inside board in the opposite direction. With competing player pieces shifting in opposite directions there is bound to be conflict and the requirement for particular strategies at particular times. Here are the last two Backgammon tactics to complete your game.
The Priming Game Plan
If the purpose of the blocking strategy is to hamper the opponents ability to shift his pieces, the Priming Game strategy is to absolutely block any activity of the opposing player by creating a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s checkers will either get hit, or end up in a bad position if he at all tries to leave the wall. The ambush of the prime can be established anyplace between point 2 and point 11 in your board. As soon as you’ve successfully constructed the prime to stop the movement of the opponent, your competitor does not even get to toss the dice, that means you move your chips and toss the dice again. You will win the game for sure.
The Back Game Strategy
The goals of the Back Game tactic and the Blocking Game technique are similar – to hurt your competitor’s positions hoping to improve your odds of winning, but the Back Game technique relies on alternate tactics to achieve that. The Back Game technique is commonly employed when you are far behind your opponent. To compete in Backgammon with this tactic, you have to control 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This tactic is more difficult than others to use in Backgammon seeing as it requires careful movement of your checkers and how the checkers are relocated is partly the result of the dice roll.