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As we have dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a game of skill and pure luck. The goal is to shift your checkers carefully around the game board to your home board and at the same time your opposing player moves their checkers toward their inner board in the opposing direction. With competing player checkers heading in opposite directions there is bound to be conflict and the need for specific strategies at particular instances. Here are the last 2 Backgammon strategies to finish off your game.

The Priming Game Tactic

If the purpose of the blocking plan is to slow down the opponent to shift his checkers, the Priming Game strategy is to absolutely barricade any activity of the opponent by creating a prime - ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor's pieces will either get hit, or end up in a bad position if he/she ever tries to escape the wall. The ambush of the prime can be established anywhere between point two and point eleven in your board. After you've successfully built the prime to stop the movement of the opponent, the competitor does not even get a chance to roll the dice, and you shift your chips and toss the dice again. You will win the game for sure.

The Back Game Plan

The aims of the Back Game technique and the Blocking Game technique are similar - to hinder your competitor's positions in hope to boost your chances of winning, however the Back Game tactic utilizes different techniques to do that. The Back Game technique is often utilized when you're far behind your opponent. To compete in Backgammon with this strategy, you need to hold 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This plan is more challenging than others to employ in Backgammon seeing as it requires careful movement of your pieces and how the pieces are moved is partially the outcome of the dice toss.