Backgammon Strategy Backgammon Strategy for Dummies

Read more about the
Las Vegas 2024 Super
Bowl Streaker!

As we have dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a casino game of talent and pure luck. The goal is to shift your chips carefully around the game board to your inner board and at the same time your opposing player shifts their checkers toward their home board in the opposite direction. With competing player checkers moving in opposite 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 Strategy

If the goal of the blocking strategy is to slow down the opponent to move his pieces, the Priming Game strategy is to completely block any movement of the opposing player by constructing a prime - ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor's chips will either get hit, or end up in a bad position if she ever attempts to leave the wall. The ambush of the prime can be established anywhere between point 2 and point 11 in your board. As soon as you've successfully constructed the prime to prevent the activity of the competitor, your competitor does not even get a chance to roll the dice, that means you move your pieces and roll the dice again. You'll win the game for sure.

The Back Game Technique

The objectives of the Back Game tactic and the Blocking Game strategy are very similar - to hurt your opponent's positions hoping to better your odds of succeeding, but the Back Game plan uses alternate tactics to do that. The Back Game strategy is commonly used when you are far behind your opponent. To play Backgammon with this strategy, you have to hold two or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This tactic is more complex than others to use in Backgammon because it requires careful movement of your chips and how the pieces are moved is partially the outcome of the dice roll.