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As we dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a casino game of talent and pure luck. The goal is to move your chips carefully around the game board to your inner board while at the same time your opponent moves their checkers toward their inside board in the opposite direction. With competing player chips moving in opposite directions there is bound to be conflict and the need for specific strategies at particular instances. Here are the 2 final Backgammon techniques to finish off your game.

The Priming Game Tactic

If the aim of the blocking tactic is to slow down the opponent to move his pieces, the Priming Game tactic is to completely barricade any movement of the opponent by building a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s checkers will either get bumped, or result a bad position if he/she ever attempts to leave the wall. The ambush of the prime can be established anywhere between point two and point eleven in your board. Once you’ve successfully constructed the prime to prevent the movement of the competitor, your opponent doesn’t even get to toss the dice, and you move your pieces and toss the dice yet again. You will win the game for sure.

The Back Game Technique

The aims of the Back Game tactic and the Blocking Game tactic are similar – to harm your competitor’s positions with hope to better your chances of succeeding, but the Back Game technique relies on seperate techniques to do that. The Back Game tactic is commonly used when you’re far behind your opponent. To compete in Backgammon with this strategy, you need 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 play in Backgammon because it requires careful movement of your checkers and how the chips are relocated is partly the result of the dice roll.