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As we dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a game of ability and luck. The goal is to shift your pieces safely around the board to your inner board while at the same time your opponent moves their checkers toward their inside board in the opposing direction. With competing player pieces heading in opposing directions there is going to be conflict and the requirement for specific tactics at specific instances. Here are the last 2 Backgammon techniques to round out your game.

The Priming Game Tactic

If the aim of the blocking tactic is to hamper the opponents ability to shift her chips, the Priming Game plan is to absolutely block any activity of the opponent by constructing a prime - ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent's checkers will either get hit, or result a battered position if he/she at all attempts to escape the wall. The trap of the prime can be built anywhere between point 2 and point 11 in your half of the board. As soon as you've successfully assembled the prime to prevent the activity of the opponent, your competitor does not even get a chance to toss the dice, and you move your chips and roll the dice again. You'll win the game for sure.

The Back Game Technique

The goals of the Back Game plan and the Blocking Game strategy are very similar - to hurt your opponent's positions in hope to improve your odds of winning, however the Back Game strategy uses seperate tactics to achieve that. The Back Game technique is generally employed when you are far behind your competitor. To play Backgammon with this technique, you have to control 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single checker) late in the game. This strategy is more complex than others to employ in Backgammon seeing as it needs careful movement of your checkers and how the chips are relocated is partially the result of the dice toss.