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As we dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a game of ability and luck. The goal is to move your chips safely around the game board to your home board while at the same time your opposition moves their pieces toward their home board in the opposing direction. With competing player pieces heading in opposite directions there is going to be conflict and the requirement for specific tactics at particular instances. Here are the last 2 Backgammon tactics to complete your game.

The Priming Game Plan

If the goal of the blocking plan is to slow down the opponent to move her checkers, the Priming Game plan is to completely barricade any movement of the opposing player by creating a prime - ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent's pieces will either get hit, or end up in a bad position if she at all tries to leave 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 built the prime to block the movement of your opponent, your competitor does not even get to roll the dice, and you move your pieces and roll the dice yet again. You will win the game for sure.

The Back Game Plan

The objectives of the Back Game tactic and the Blocking Game tactic are very similar - to hurt your opponent's positions in hope to improve your chances of succeeding, but the Back Game strategy uses seperate techniques to do that. The Back Game plan is frequently used when you're far behind your opponent. To play Backgammon with this plan, you have to control two or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single checker) late in the game. This plan is more challenging than others to play in Backgammon because it requires careful movement of your chips and how the chips are moved is partly the result of the dice toss.