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As we have dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a casino game of ability and 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 inside board in the opposing direction. With opposing player chips heading in opposite directions there is bound to be conflict and the need for particular tactics at specific times. Here are the last 2 Backgammon strategies to finish off your game.

The Priming Game Strategy

If the purpose of the blocking strategy is to slow down the opponent to move her pieces, the Priming Game tactic is to absolutely stop any movement of the opposing player by constructing a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s pieces will either get hit, or end up in a bad position if she ever attempts to escape the wall. The ambush of the prime can be setup anyplace between point two and point eleven in your game board. Once you have successfully constructed the prime to stop the movement of the competitor, your competitor doesn’t even get a chance to toss the dice, and you shift your chips and toss the dice yet again. You’ll win the game for sure.

The Back Game Plan

The objectives of the Back Game technique and the Blocking Game strategy are very similar – to harm your competitor’s positions with hope to boost your odds of succeeding, however the Back Game tactic uses alternate techniques to achieve that. The Back Game technique is frequently used when you’re far behind your competitor. To compete in Backgammon with this strategy, you need to hold 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single piece) late in the game. This strategy is more difficult than others to use in Backgammon seeing as it requires careful movement of your chips and how the chips are relocated is partially the outcome of the dice toss.