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As we have dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a game of ability and pure luck. The aim is to shift your checkers safely around the board to your inner board and at the same time your opposing player shifts their chips toward their inner board in the opposite direction. With competing player chips heading in opposing directions there is going to be conflict and the need for particular strategies at specific times. Here are the two final Backgammon tactics to round out your game.

The Priming Game Strategy

If the goal of the blocking tactic is to hamper the opponents ability to shift her chips, the Priming Game strategy is to completely block any movement of the opponent by creating a prime - ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent's checkers will either get hit, or result a damaged position if she ever tries to escape the wall. The ambush of the prime can be established anyplace between point two and point 11 in your game board. After you've successfully built the prime to block the movement of your opponent, your competitor doesn't even get to toss the dice, and you shift your pieces and roll the dice again. You will be a winner for sure.

The Back Game Plan

The goals of the Back Game plan and the Blocking Game tactic are very similar - to hurt your opponent's positions in hope to better your chances of winning, but the Back Game tactic utilizes alternate techniques to achieve that. The Back Game plan is often employed when you're far behind your competitor. To compete in Backgammon with this technique, you have to hold two or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This tactic is more challenging than others to play in Backgammon seeing as it requires careful movement of your checkers and how the pieces are moved is partially the result of the dice roll.