The Basics of Backgammon Tactics – Part Two
Posted in Backgammon on 10/15/2025 03:25 am by Lillie
As we have dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a casino game of talent and luck. The aim is to shift your pieces safely around the game board to your home board and at the same time your opposing player moves their pieces toward their inside board in the opposite direction. With competing player chips shifting in opposite directions there is bound to be conflict and the requirement for specific tactics at specific times. Here are the last 2 Backgammon techniques to finish off your game.
The Priming Game Tactic
If the goal of the blocking strategy is to hamper the opponents ability to shift her chips, the Priming Game strategy is to completely barricade any activity of the opposing player by building a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s pieces will either get bumped, or result a battered position if he at all tries to escape the wall. The trap of the prime can be built anyplace between point two and point 11 in your game board. After you’ve successfully assembled the prime to stop the activity of the opponent, the competitor does not even get a chance to roll the dice, that means you move your pieces and toss the dice yet again. You’ll be a winner for sure.
The Back Game Strategy
The goals of the Back Game technique and the Blocking Game strategy are similar – to harm your opponent’s positions with hope to improve your chances of succeeding, however the Back Game technique utilizes seperate techniques to do that. The Back Game tactic is generally utilized when you’re far behind your competitor. To participate in Backgammon with this technique, you need to control two or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This technique is more challenging than others to use in Backgammon because it requires careful movement of your chips and how the chips are relocated is partly the result of the dice toss.