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As we have dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a casino game of skill and luck. The goal is to shift your pieces safely around the game board to your home board and at the same time your opponent shifts their checkers toward their inner board in the opposing direction. With competing player chips shifting in opposite directions there is going to be conflict and the requirement for specific tactics at particular instances. Here are the last 2 Backgammon plans to finish off your game.

The Priming Game Tactic

If the purpose of the blocking strategy is to slow down the opponent to shift his chips, the Priming Game tactic is to completely barricade any movement of the opponent by constructing a prime - ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent's checkers will either get hit, or end up in a battered position if he at all tries to leave the wall. The ambush of the prime can be built anywhere between point 2 and point 11 in your board. After you've successfully constructed the prime to stop the movement of your competitor, your competitor doesn't even get to roll the dice, that means you shift your checkers and roll the dice yet again. You'll win the game for sure.

The Back Game Technique

The objectives of the Back Game strategy and the Blocking Game plan are similar - to hinder your opponent's positions in hope to better your chances of winning, but the Back Game tactic utilizes different techniques to do that. The Back Game tactic is often used when you're far behind your competitor. To compete in Backgammon with this tactic, you need to control 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single piece) late in the game. This plan is more complex than others to employ in Backgammon because it needs careful movement of your chips and how the chips are relocated is partly the outcome of the dice roll.