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As we have dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a casino game of talent and luck. The aim is to shift your chips carefully around the board to your inner board and at the same time your opposing player moves their chips toward their inner board in the opposite direction. With competing player chips shifting in opposite directions there is going to be conflict and the need for specific tactics at particular times. Here are the two final 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 move his pieces, the Priming Game tactic is to completely stop any movement of the opposing player by constructing a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s checkers will either get hit, or end up in a bad position if she at all attempts to leave the wall. The trap of the prime can be established anyplace between point two and point eleven in your board. As soon as you’ve successfully built the prime to prevent the movement of the competitor, the competitor doesn’t even get a chance 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 objectives of the Back Game tactic and the Blocking Game tactic are very similar – to harm your opponent’s positions hoping to better your chances of winning, however the Back Game technique uses alternate techniques to achieve that. The Back Game strategy is generally used when you’re far behind your opponent. To compete in Backgammon with this technique, you have to hold 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single checker) late in the game. This technique is more challenging than others to employ in Backgammon because it requires careful movement of your chips and how the checkers are relocated is partially the outcome of the dice toss.