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As we have dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a casino game of skill and good luck. The goal is to shift your chips carefully around the board to your home board and at the same time your opposing player shifts their pieces toward their inside board in the opposite direction. With competing player pieces shifting in opposite directions there is bound to be conflict and the need for specific tactics at particular instances. Here are the last two Backgammon strategies to finish off your game.

The Priming Game Tactic

If the purpose of the blocking tactic is to hamper the opponents ability to move her pieces, the Priming Game tactic is to absolutely barricade any activity of the opponent by building a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s pieces will either get hit, or end up in a damaged position if he/she at all attempts to escape the wall. The ambush of the prime can be built anywhere between point two and point 11 in your half of the board. After you’ve successfully built the prime to block the activity of the competitor, your opponent doesn’t even get a chance to roll the dice, that means you move your checkers and roll the dice again. You will be a winner for sure.

The Back Game Plan

The aims of the Back Game plan and the Blocking Game tactic are similar – to hurt your competitor’s positions hoping to boost your chances of succeeding, however the Back Game technique uses seperate techniques to do that. The Back Game plan is commonly utilized when you are far behind your opponent. To compete in Backgammon with this technique, you need to control 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This strategy is more complex than others to use in Backgammon because it needs careful movement of your chips and how the checkers are moved is partially the outcome of the dice toss.