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As we have dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a game of ability and pure luck. The goal is to shift your chips carefully around the board to your inner board and at the same time your opponent moves their chips toward their inner board in the opposite direction. With competing player chips shifting in opposing directions there is going to be conflict and the need for specific strategies at specific times. Here are the two final Backgammon strategies to round out your game.

The Priming Game Plan

If the goal of the blocking plan is to hamper the opponents ability to move her pieces, the Priming Game strategy is to absolutely stop any movement of the opposing player by creating a prime - ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor's checkers will either get hit, or result a battered position if he/she at all tries to leave the wall. The trap of the prime can be setup anyplace between point two and point eleven in your board. As soon as you have successfully constructed the prime to stop the movement of your opponent, the competitor doesn't even get a chance to toss the dice, and you shift your pieces and toss the dice again. You will win the game for sure.

The Back Game Technique

The objectives of the Back Game technique and the Blocking Game strategy are similar - to harm your competitor's positions with hope to boost your odds of winning, but the Back Game strategy utilizes different tactics to achieve that. The Back Game strategy is commonly employed when you're far behind your opponent. To participate in Backgammon with this plan, you need to control 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single piece) late in the game. This technique is more difficult than others to play in Backgammon seeing as it needs careful movement of your checkers and how the chips are relocated is partly the result of the dice roll.