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As we dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a casino game of skill and good luck. The aim is to move your pieces safely around the board to your inner board and at the same time your opponent shifts their pieces toward their inside board in the opposing direction. With opposing player pieces shifting in opposite directions there is going to be conflict and the need for specific strategies at particular times. Here are the two final Backgammon plans to round out your game.

The Priming Game Strategy

If the goal of the blocking tactic is to hamper the opponents ability to shift her checkers, the Priming Game tactic is to completely barricade any activity of the opponent by assembling a prime - ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor's pieces will either get hit, or end up in a battered position if he ever tries to escape the wall. The ambush of the prime can be built anyplace between point 2 and point eleven in your half of the board. Once you've successfully assembled the prime to stop the activity of your competitor, your competitor does not even get 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 aims of the Back Game plan and the Blocking Game tactic are similar - to hurt your opponent's positions with hope to boost your chances of winning, but the Back Game tactic relies on alternate tactics to do that. The Back Game plan is often used when you are far behind your opponent. To play Backgammon with this technique, you have to control 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This strategy is more complex than others to play in Backgammon because it requires careful movement of your chips and how the pieces are moved is partially the outcome of the dice toss.