As we have dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a game of talent and pure luck. The goal is to move your pieces carefully around the game board to your inside board and at the same time your opponent moves their pieces 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 techniques at specific times. Here are the 2 final Backgammon techniques to complete your game.
The Priming Game Plan
If the goal of the blocking strategy is to slow down the opponent to move her chips, the Priming Game plan is to completely block any activity of the opponent by creating a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s chips will either get bumped, or result a bad position if he ever tries to escape the wall. The trap of the prime can be established anyplace between point two and point eleven in your board. After you’ve successfully built the prime to prevent the activity of the opponent, your 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 strategy and the Blocking Game tactic are similar – to hinder your opponent’s positions in hope to boost your chances of succeeding, but the Back Game tactic relies on seperate tactics to achieve that. The Back Game technique is often used when you are far behind your competitor. To compete in Backgammon with this tactic, you need to control 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This strategy is more complex than others to employ in Backgammon because it requires careful movement of your checkers and how the checkers are moved is partially the result of the dice roll.
December 5th, 2025
Lee
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