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As we dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a casino game of skill and luck. The aim is to shift your pieces safely around the board to your home board while at the same time your opponent shifts their checkers toward their home board in the opposing direction. With opposing player chips moving in opposing directions there is bound to be conflict and the need for specific techniques at specific instances. Here are the two final Backgammon plans to finish off your game.

The Priming Game Plan

If the purpose of the blocking strategy is to slow down the opponent to shift his checkers, the Priming Game strategy is to completely stop any activity of the opposing player by assembling a prime - ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor's checkers will either get bumped, or end up in a bad position if he/she ever attempts to leave the wall. The ambush of the prime can be setup anyplace between point two and point 11 in your half of the board. As soon as you have successfully constructed the prime to prevent the movement of the opponent, your competitor doesn't even get a chance to toss the dice, and you shift your pieces and roll the dice yet again. You'll win the game for sure.

The Back Game Strategy

The aims of the Back Game plan and the Blocking Game technique are similar - to hinder your opponent's positions in hope to improve your chances of winning, but the Back Game tactic utilizes seperate tactics to do that. The Back Game strategy is frequently employed when you're far behind your competitor. To play Backgammon with this tactic, you have to control two or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This strategy is more challenging than others to use in Backgammon seeing as it needs careful movement of your chips and how the checkers are relocated is partially the result of the dice roll.