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As we have dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a game of ability and good luck. The aim is to shift your chips carefully around the board to your home board and at the same time your opposing player moves their chips toward their inside board in the opposite direction. With opposing player chips moving in opposite directions there is bound to be conflict and the need for specific techniques at particular instances. Here are the 2 final Backgammon tactics to complete your game.

The Priming Game Plan

If the goal of the blocking strategy is to slow down the opponent to shift his checkers, the Priming Game strategy is to completely block any movement of the opposing player by building a prime - ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor's checkers will either get hit, or end up in a bad position if he ever tries to leave the wall. The ambush of the prime can be built anyplace between point two and point eleven in your half of the board. Once you have successfully assembled the prime to stop the movement of the opponent, your competitor doesn't even get to toss the dice, and you move your chips and roll the dice yet again. You will win the game for sure.

The Back Game Tactic

The objectives of the Back Game tactic and the Blocking Game strategy are very similar - to harm your competitor's positions in hope to boost your chances of succeeding, but the Back Game tactic uses alternate tactics to do that. The Back Game plan is commonly employed when you're far behind your competitor. To compete in Backgammon with this technique, you have to control two or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This plan is more challenging than others to employ in Backgammon seeing as it needs careful movement of your pieces and how the pieces are relocated is partially the result of the dice roll.