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As we dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a casino game of talent and luck. The goal is to shift your chips carefully around the game board to your home board while at the same time your opponent shifts their chips toward their inner board in the opposing direction. With competing player pieces heading in opposite directions there is going to be conflict and the requirement for specific strategies at particular instances. Here are the two final Backgammon plans to round out your game.

The Priming Game Plan

If the goal of the blocking tactic is to hamper the opponents ability to move his pieces, the Priming Game tactic is to completely block any movement of the opponent by building a prime - ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor's checkers will either get bumped, or end up in a bad position if she at all tries to escape the wall. The ambush of the prime can be setup anywhere between point two and point 11 in your game board. Once you have successfully built the prime to stop the activity of the 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 be a winner for sure.

The Back Game Plan

The aims of the Back Game technique and the Blocking Game technique are similar - to harm your competitor's positions hoping to improve your chances of succeeding, however the Back Game plan uses different techniques to do that. The Back Game plan is generally used when you are far behind your competitor. To compete in Backgammon with this plan, you have to control two or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single checker) late in the game. This tactic is more difficult than others to use in Backgammon because it needs careful movement of your checkers and how the checkers are relocated is partially the result of the dice roll.