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As we have dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a casino game of talent and good luck. The goal is to shift your checkers safely around the game board to your inner board and at the same time your opposition moves 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 particular times. Here are the 2 final Backgammon techniques to finish off your game.

The Priming Game Tactic

If the aim of the blocking strategy is to hamper the opponents ability to shift his chips, the Priming Game plan is to absolutely barricade any movement of the opponent by building a prime - ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent's pieces will either get hit, or end up in a battered position if he at all attempts to escape the wall. The ambush of the prime can be established anywhere between point 2 and point eleven in your half of the board. After you've successfully constructed the prime to stop the activity of your competitor, your opponent doesn't even get to roll the dice, and you shift your checkers and roll the dice yet again. You will win the game for sure.

The Back Game Technique

The aims of the Back Game strategy and the Blocking Game plan are very similar - to harm your opponent's positions with hope to better your odds of winning, however the Back Game strategy uses different techniques to achieve that. The Back Game technique is generally utilized when you are far behind your opponent. To play Backgammon with this technique, you have to hold 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 because it needs careful movement of your pieces and how the checkers are moved is partially the outcome of the dice roll.