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As we have dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a casino game of skill and luck. The goal is to shift your chips safely around the board to your inner board while at the same time your opposition shifts their chips toward their inner board in the opposite direction. With opposing player chips shifting in opposing directions there is going to be conflict and the need for particular strategies at particular times. Here are the two final Backgammon techniques to complete your game.

The Priming Game Strategy

If the goal of the blocking strategy is to slow down the opponent to shift his checkers, the Priming Game tactic is to completely block any movement of the opposing player by creating a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s pieces will either get hit, or result a battered position if he/she ever tries to leave the wall. The ambush of the prime can be established anywhere between point 2 and point eleven in your board. As soon as you have successfully assembled the prime to prevent the activity of the opponent, the competitor does not even get a chance to toss the dice, and you move your checkers and toss the dice again. You’ll be a winner for sure.

The Back Game Tactic

The objectives of the Back Game technique and the Blocking Game tactic are similar – to hurt your competitor’s positions in hope to better your odds of succeeding, but the Back Game plan utilizes seperate techniques to do that. The Back Game strategy is commonly used when you’re far behind your competitor. To compete in Backgammon with this technique, you need to hold two or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single piece) late in the game. This tactic is more complex than others to play in Backgammon seeing as it requires careful movement of your checkers and how the chips are relocated is partially the outcome of the dice toss.