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As we have dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a game of talent and luck. The goal is to shift your checkers safely around the board to your home board and at the same time your opponent moves their chips toward their home board in the opposing direction. With competing player checkers shifting in opposite directions there is going to be conflict and the need for particular tactics at specific times. Here are the last two Backgammon tactics to finish off your game.

The Priming Game Plan

If the goal of the blocking strategy is to slow down the opponent to move their pieces, the Priming Game tactic is to absolutely stop any movement of the opposing player by assembling a prime - ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent's pieces will either get bumped, or result a bad position if he at all tries to leave the wall. The trap of the prime can be established anyplace between point two and point eleven in your board. Once you've successfully built the prime to prevent the activity of the competitor, your opponent does not even get a chance to toss the dice, and you move your checkers and roll the dice yet again. You'll win the game for sure.

The Back Game Strategy

The aims of the Back Game technique and the Blocking Game technique are very similar - to harm your opponent's positions in hope to boost your odds of succeeding, but the Back Game tactic relies on alternate techniques to do that. The Back Game plan is commonly used when you are far behind your opponent. To participate 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 plan is more complex than others to play in Backgammon because it needs careful movement of your checkers and how the chips are moved is partially the outcome of the dice toss.