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As we have dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a casino game of skill and pure luck. The goal is to shift your chips carefully around the board to your home board while at the same time your opposing player moves their chips toward their inner board in the opposite direction. With competing player pieces heading in opposite directions there is going to be conflict and the need for particular tactics at particular instances. Here are the last two Backgammon strategies to round out your game.

The Priming Game Plan

If the purpose of the blocking tactic is to hamper the opponents ability to shift his chips, the Priming Game plan is to absolutely stop any activity of the opponent by creating a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s pieces will either get bumped, or end up in a battered position if he at all attempts to escape the wall. The ambush of the prime can be established anyplace between point 2 and point eleven in your half of the board. Once you have successfully constructed the prime to stop the movement of your competitor, your competitor does not even get a chance to roll the dice, that means you move your checkers and roll the dice again. You’ll be a winner for sure.

The Back Game Tactic

The goals of the Back Game plan and the Blocking Game technique are similar – to hinder your opponent’s positions in hope to better your odds of succeeding, but the Back Game plan relies on alternate tactics to achieve that. The Back Game plan is generally used when you are far behind your competitor. To play Backgammon with this technique, you have to control two or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single checker) late in the game. This plan is more challenging than others to use in Backgammon seeing as it requires careful movement of your pieces and how the pieces are moved is partially the outcome of the dice toss.