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

The Priming Game Strategy

If the goal of the blocking strategy is to hamper the opponents ability to shift their chips, the Priming Game plan is to absolutely block any movement of the opposing player by constructing a prime - ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor's checkers will either get hit, or result a damaged position if he/she at all tries to escape the wall. The trap of the prime can be established anyplace between point 2 and point eleven in your game board. Once you've successfully built the prime to prevent the movement of the competitor, your opponent does not even get to roll the dice, that means you shift your pieces and roll the dice yet again. You will be a winner for sure.

The Back Game Strategy

The aims of the Back Game plan and the Blocking Game plan are very similar - to harm your opponent's positions with hope to better your odds of succeeding, however the Back Game plan uses different techniques to achieve that. The Back Game tactic is generally used when you are far behind your opponent. To participate in Backgammon with this plan, you need to hold 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single checker) late in the game. This tactic is more complex than others to use in Backgammon because it needs careful movement of your pieces and how the chips are moved is partially the outcome of the dice roll.