1 Oct 24

As we have dicussed in the previous 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 while at the same time your opposing player moves their checkers toward their home board in the opposing direction. With competing player checkers shifting in opposite directions there is going to be conflict and the need for specific tactics at specific times. Here are the 2 final Backgammon techniques to finish off your game.

The Priming Game Strategy

If the goal of the blocking strategy is to slow down the opponent to move her pieces, the Priming Game tactic is to absolutely barricade any activity of the opposing player by creating a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s checkers will either get bumped, or result a bad position if he/she 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 stop the activity of the opponent, your opponent does not even get to roll the dice, and you move your pieces and toss the dice again. You will win the game for sure.

The Back Game Strategy

The objectives of the Back Game tactic and the Blocking Game technique are very similar – to hurt your opponent’s positions hoping to improve your chances of winning, however the Back Game technique relies on seperate techniques to achieve that. The Back Game tactic is generally used when you’re far behind your opponent. To compete in Backgammon with this strategy, you have to control 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This plan is more complex than others to play in Backgammon because it requires careful movement of your checkers and how the checkers are relocated is partly the result of the dice toss.


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