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As we have dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a game of ability and good 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 pieces toward their inside board in the opposite direction. With opposing player checkers shifting in opposing directions there is bound to be conflict and the need for particular techniques at specific instances. Here are the last 2 Backgammon strategies to round out your game.

The Priming Game Plan

If the aim of the blocking strategy is to slow down the opponent to move his pieces, the Priming Game tactic is to absolutely barricade any movement of the opponent by building a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s checkers will either get bumped, or result a battered position if she ever tries to escape the wall. The trap of the prime can be established anywhere between point two and point eleven in your board. As soon as you’ve successfully constructed the prime to stop the movement of the competitor, your competitor does not even get to toss the dice, and you shift your chips and roll the dice again. You will win the game for sure.

The Back Game Strategy

The aims of the Back Game strategy and the Blocking Game plan are similar – to hurt your competitor’s positions with hope to boost your odds of succeeding, but the Back Game technique uses different techniques to achieve that. The Back Game tactic is commonly used when you’re far behind your opponent. To play Backgammon with this strategy, you need to control two or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This tactic is more difficult than others to play in Backgammon because it needs careful movement of your chips and how the chips are moved is partially the result of the dice toss.