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

The Priming Game Tactic

If the goal of the blocking plan is to hamper the opponents ability to shift his chips, the Priming Game tactic is to absolutely block any activity of the opponent by constructing a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s pieces will either get bumped, or result a bad position if he ever tries to escape the wall. The ambush of the prime can be setup anywhere between point two and point eleven in your board. As soon as you have successfully constructed the prime to block the activity of your competitor, the opponent doesn’t even get a chance to roll the dice, and you move your chips and toss the dice again. You’ll be a winner for sure.

The Back Game Technique

The aims of the Back Game technique and the Blocking Game strategy are very similar – to hinder your competitor’s positions with hope to boost your chances of succeeding, but the Back Game strategy utilizes different tactics to achieve that. The Back Game tactic is often employed when you are far behind your opponent. To participate in Backgammon with this technique, you need to hold 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single checker) late in the game. This tactic is more complex than others to use in Backgammon because it needs careful movement of your chips and how the chips are moved is partly the outcome of the dice roll.