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As we dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a game of talent and luck. The aim is to shift your pieces carefully around the board to your home board while at the same time your opposition moves their pieces toward their inside board in the opposite direction. With competing player checkers shifting in opposite directions there is going to be conflict and the requirement for particular techniques at specific times. Here are the two final Backgammon strategies to finish off your game.

The Priming Game Strategy

If the aim of the blocking tactic is to slow down the opponent to shift her checkers, the Priming Game plan is to completely block any movement of the opponent by building a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s pieces will either get hit, or result a bad position if he ever attempts to escape the wall. The ambush of the prime can be established anywhere between point two and point eleven in your half of the board. After you have successfully built the prime to prevent the activity of your competitor, your opponent does not even get to roll the dice, and you shift your pieces and roll the dice again. You’ll be a winner for sure.

The Back Game Tactic

The objectives of the Back Game strategy and the Blocking Game tactic are very similar – to hinder your competitor’s positions in hope to boost your chances of winning, however the Back Game technique relies on alternate techniques to achieve that. The Back Game strategy is frequently utilized when you are far behind your opponent. To play Backgammon with this tactic, you have to hold 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This tactic is more difficult than others to employ in Backgammon seeing as it needs careful movement of your checkers and how the chips are moved is partly the outcome of the dice toss.