Posted by Nadia | Posted in Backgammon | Posted on 02-09-2026
As we dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a game of skill and luck. The aim is to shift your chips carefully around the board to your inner board and at the same time your opponent moves their pieces toward their inside board in the opposite direction. With opposing player checkers moving in opposite directions there is going to be conflict and the requirement for particular techniques at specific instances. Here are the 2 final Backgammon strategies to round out your game.
The Priming Game Strategy
If the goal of the blocking strategy is to hamper the opponents ability to move her chips, the Priming Game strategy is to completely block any activity of the opponent by constructing a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s pieces will either get hit, or end up in a bad position if he/she ever tries to leave the wall. The trap of the prime can be built anyplace between point two and point eleven in your game board. As soon as you have successfully constructed the prime to stop the movement of your competitor, your opponent does not even get a chance to roll the dice, that means you shift your pieces and toss the dice yet again. You will win the game for sure.
The Back Game Technique
The aims of the Back Game strategy and the Blocking Game tactic are very similar – to hurt your competitor’s positions in hope to improve your chances of winning, but the Back Game plan uses seperate techniques to achieve that. The Back Game technique is generally used when you’re far behind your opponent. To play Backgammon with this plan, you need to hold 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This strategy is more difficult than others to employ in Backgammon because it needs careful movement of your checkers and how the chips are relocated is partly the result of the dice roll.