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As we have dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a game of skill and pure luck. The aim is to shift your pieces carefully around the board to your home board and at the same time your opposition moves their pieces toward their home board in the opposite direction. With opposing player checkers heading in opposite directions there is bound to be conflict and the need for specific techniques at specific times. Here are the last two Backgammon tactics to round out your game.

The Priming Game Strategy

If the goal of the blocking tactic is to slow down the opponent to move their pieces, the Priming Game strategy is to completely stop any activity 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 he at all attempts to escape the wall. The trap of the prime can be established anywhere between point two and point 11 in your game board. Once you've successfully assembled the prime to prevent the movement of your opponent, the opponent doesn't even get to toss the dice, that means you move your pieces and toss the dice again. You'll be a winner for sure.

The Back Game Technique

The goals of the Back Game technique and the Blocking Game technique are very similar - to hurt your competitor's positions in hope to better your odds of winning, but the Back Game plan relies on different techniques to do that. The Back Game technique is generally utilized when you are far behind your opponent. To participate in Backgammon with this strategy, you need to hold 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single piece) late in the game. This technique is more challenging than others to use in Backgammon because it requires careful movement of your pieces and how the checkers are moved is partly the result of the dice roll.