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As we have dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a game of skill and pure luck. The aim is to move your checkers safely around the game board to your home board while at the same time your opposition moves their chips toward their home board in the opposing direction. With opposing player checkers moving in opposite directions there is bound to be conflict and the need for specific strategies at specific instances. Here are the last two Backgammon techniques to complete your game.

The Priming Game Tactic

If the goal of the blocking strategy is to hamper the opponents ability to shift their pieces, the Priming Game strategy is to absolutely block any movement of the opposing player by building a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s pieces will either get hit, or result a damaged position if he/she at all attempts to escape the wall. The trap of the prime can be established anyplace between point two and point eleven in your board. After you’ve successfully assembled the prime to prevent the activity of the competitor, the competitor does not even get to toss the dice, and you shift your pieces and roll the dice yet again. You’ll be a winner for sure.

The Back Game Tactic

The goals of the Back Game strategy and the Blocking Game technique are similar – to hinder your competitor’s positions hoping to boost your chances of winning, but the Back Game tactic utilizes alternate tactics to do that. The Back Game technique is generally utilized when you’re far behind your opponent. To play Backgammon with this strategy, you have to hold two or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single piece) late in the game. This technique is more difficult than others to play in Backgammon because it needs careful movement of your chips and how the chips are moved is partly the outcome of the dice roll.