Posted by Nadia | Posted in Backgammon | Posted on 23-10-2025
As we have dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a game of talent and luck. The goal is to move your chips carefully around the board to your home board while at the same time your opposing player shifts their pieces toward their inside board in the opposing direction. With competing player pieces heading in opposite directions there is bound to be conflict and the need for specific techniques at particular instances. Here are the last two Backgammon plans to round out your game.
The Priming Game Plan
If the purpose of the blocking strategy is to slow down the opponent to move her chips, the Priming Game strategy is to absolutely block any movement of the opponent by building a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s pieces will either get bumped, or end up in a battered position if he ever tries to leave the wall. The trap of the prime can be built anyplace between point two and point 11 in your half of the board. As soon as you have successfully assembled the prime to block the movement of your opponent, the opponent doesn’t even get to toss the dice, that means you move your pieces and toss the dice yet again. You will win the game for sure.
The Back Game Plan
The goals of the Back Game technique and the Blocking Game technique are very similar – to hinder your competitor’s positions with hope to improve your odds of succeeding, however the Back Game tactic utilizes different techniques to achieve that. The Back Game plan is frequently utilized when you’re far behind your opponent. To participate in Backgammon with this technique, you need to hold two or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This plan is more difficult than others to use in Backgammon seeing as it requires careful movement of your checkers and how the checkers are moved is partly the outcome of the dice roll.

