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As we dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a game of ability and pure luck. The goal is to shift your chips carefully around the board to your inner board while at the same time your opposition shifts their chips toward their inside board in the opposite direction. With opposing player checkers shifting in opposite directions there is bound to be conflict and the requirement for specific techniques at particular times. Here are the last two Backgammon plans to round out your game.

The Priming Game Strategy

If the purpose of the blocking strategy is to hamper the opponents ability to shift his pieces, the Priming Game plan is to absolutely block any activity of the opponent by building a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s checkers will either get bumped, or end up in a bad position if she at all tries to leave the wall. The trap of the prime can be built anywhere between point 2 and point eleven in your board. Once you’ve successfully built the prime to prevent the activity of the competitor, your opponent does not even get to toss the dice, and you move your pieces and roll the dice again. You’ll be a winner for sure.

The Back Game Technique

The objectives of the Back Game technique and the Blocking Game plan are similar – to harm your competitor’s positions in hope to boost your chances of winning, but the Back Game strategy utilizes different tactics to achieve that. The Back Game tactic is frequently utilized when you are far behind your competitor. To play Backgammon with this plan, you have to hold two or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This strategy is more difficult than others to play in Backgammon because it needs careful movement of your pieces and how the checkers are moved is partly the result of the dice roll.