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As we have dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a game of ability and pure luck. The aim is to shift your checkers safely around the board to your home board and at the same time your opposition shifts their chips toward their home board in the opposite direction. With opposing player chips shifting in opposing directions there is bound to be conflict and the requirement for specific strategies at particular instances. Here are the last two Backgammon strategies to round out your game.

The Priming Game Plan

If the goal of the blocking tactic is to hamper the opponents ability to move their pieces, the Priming Game plan is to completely block any movement of the opposing player by constructing a prime - ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent's checkers will either get bumped, or result a battered position if he ever tries to escape the wall. The trap of the prime can be setup anywhere between point two and point eleven in your board. Once you've successfully constructed the prime to block the activity of the opponent, your opponent does not even get to roll the dice, and you shift your checkers and roll the dice again. You will win the game for sure.

The Back Game Strategy

The aims of the Back Game plan and the Blocking Game technique are very similar - to hurt your opponent's positions with hope to boost your chances of winning, but the Back Game technique relies on alternate techniques to achieve that. The Back Game plan is frequently employed when you are far behind your opponent. To compete in Backgammon with this tactic, you need to control 2 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 use in Backgammon because it needs careful movement of your pieces and how the checkers are moved is partially the result of the dice roll.