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The Essential Basics of Backgammon Tactics – Part 2
March 22nd, 2026 by Claudia

As we have dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a game of ability and pure luck. The goal is to move your checkers safely around the board to your home board and at the same time your opposition shifts their chips toward their inside board in the opposite direction. With opposing player chips moving in opposite directions there is bound to be conflict and the need for particular techniques at specific times. Here are the 2 final Backgammon plans to complete your game.

The Priming Game Plan

If the purpose of the blocking tactic is to hamper the opponents ability to move their checkers, 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 pieces will either get bumped, or result a bad position if she at all attempts 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 built the prime to stop the movement of the opponent, the opponent doesn’t even get to toss the dice, that means you move your chips and toss the dice yet again. You’ll win the game for sure.

The Back Game Technique

The goals of the Back Game strategy and the Blocking Game strategy are similar – to harm your opponent’s positions with hope to boost your chances of winning, however the Back Game tactic relies on alternate techniques to do that. The Back Game tactic is often utilized when you’re far behind your competitor. To compete in Backgammon with this plan, you have to hold two or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single piece) late in the game. This plan is more difficult than others to use in Backgammon seeing as it requires careful movement of your chips and how the checkers are moved is partially the result of the dice roll.


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