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As we dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a game of skill and luck. The aim is to move your chips safely around the board to your home board and at the same time your opposition moves their chips toward their inner board in the opposing direction. With opposing player checkers heading in opposite directions there is bound to be conflict and the need for particular techniques at specific times. Here are the last 2 Backgammon strategies to finish off your game.

The Priming Game Strategy

If the goal of the blocking strategy is to hamper the opponents ability to shift her pieces, the Priming Game strategy is to completely barricade any activity of the opposing player by constructing a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s chips will either get bumped, or result a battered position if he/she ever tries to escape the wall. The ambush of the prime can be established anyplace between point two and point 11 in your board. As soon as you have successfully assembled the prime to stop the activity of your competitor, the opponent doesn’t even get a chance to toss the dice, that means you move your checkers and roll the dice yet again. You will be a winner for sure.

The Back Game Strategy

The aims of the Back Game strategy and the Blocking Game strategy are similar – to hinder your competitor’s positions with hope to improve your chances of succeeding, but the Back Game plan relies on alternate tactics to do that. The Back Game strategy is frequently employed when you are far behind your competitor. To participate in Backgammon with this strategy, you need to control 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single checker) late in the game. This tactic is more difficult than others to use in Backgammon seeing as it needs careful movement of your pieces and how the chips are moved is partly the outcome of the dice roll.