The Essential Basics of Backgammon Game Plans – Part 2
Posted in Backgammon on 10/09/2025 11:25 am by Zaire
As we have dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a game of ability and pure luck. The aim is to move your pieces safely around the game board to your home board and at the same time your opposition moves their checkers toward their home board in the opposite direction. With competing player chips shifting in opposing directions there is bound to be conflict and the need for particular strategies at specific times. Here are the 2 final Backgammon strategies to round out your game.
The Priming Game Plan
If the goal of the blocking tactic is to slow down the opponent to move his pieces, the Priming Game strategy is to completely barricade any activity of the opponent by assembling a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s chips will either get bumped, or end up in a bad position if he/she at all attempts to leave the wall. The ambush of the prime can be setup anyplace between point two and point eleven in your board. After you’ve successfully constructed the prime to stop the activity of your opponent, your opponent doesn’t even get a chance to toss the dice, and you shift your chips and toss the dice again. You will win the game for sure.
The Back Game Plan
The aims of the Back Game plan and the Blocking Game strategy are similar – to hinder your opponent’s positions in hope to better your odds of succeeding, but the Back Game technique utilizes seperate techniques to achieve that. The Back Game strategy is frequently utilized when you are far behind your opponent. To participate in Backgammon with this technique, you need to hold 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 seeing as it needs careful movement of your chips and how the pieces are moved is partially the result of the dice roll.